Associations in the Greco-Roman World (AGRW)

Search for
- Search default is boolean AND / &.
- Use quotes for precise searches.
- Greek accents are not necessary.
- Portions of words are acceptable (e.g. θιασω).

Navigation (click accordion arrows)

[1] Browse by Selected Exhibits

a) Women and the associations

b) Sacrifice and the common meal

c) Mysteries for the gods

d) Honors for imperial figures

e) Financing group life

f) Occupations and group life

g) Immigrant life

h) Judeans (Jews) in the diaspora

i) Images of monuments or buildings

j) Facsimiles or squeezes of inscriptions

k) Christian associations in late antiquity

[2] Browse by Geography

1) Greece and Macedonia

a) Attica

b) Peloponnesos

c) Central Greece including Boeotia

d) Macedonia

e) Illyria

f) Dalmatia

2) Danube and Black Sea areas

a) Thrace

b) Scythia and Moesia

c) Bosporan Kingdom

d) Dacia

3) Asia Minor

a) Pontus

b) Bithynia

c) Mysia and the Troad

d) Lydia

e) Phrygia

f) Ionia

g) Caria

h) Pisidia

i) Lycia

j) Pamphylia

k) Cilicia

l) Galatia and Cappadocia

4) Greek Islands

a) Southwestern islands (off Attica)

b) Southeastern islands (off Caria and Cilicia)

c) Northern islands (off Mysia and Macedonia)

5) Greater Syria and the East

a) Syria and Phoenicia

b) Judea, Samaria, and the Galilee

c) Decapolis

d) Nabatea

e) Mesopotamia and Parthia

6) Egypt

a) Lower Egypt / Delta region

b) Fayum / Arsinoites district

c) Upper (southern) Egypt

d) Unknown region

7) Cyrenaica and North Africa

a) Cyrenaica

b) Tripolitania

8) Italy

a) All Italian regions

9) Western Provinces

a) Germania

b) Britannia

c) Gaul

[3] Browse by Topics

a) Building descriptions

a) View all excavated building descriptions

b) Building dedicated to a deity or deities

c) Building dedicated to a hero

d) Building used by immigrants

e) Building used by Judeans

f) Building used by a guild

g) Building used by a neighborhood group

h) Building used for mysteries

i) House or building adapted from a house

b) Type of group

a) Domestic (household) association

b) Neighbourhood group

c) Ethnic / immigrant association

d) Group with a deity in its name (e.g. Demetriasts)

e) Associations of Jesus-followers or Christians

f) Occupational guild (excluding those below)

g) Educated professional groups (e.g. physicians and philosophers)

h) Groups of performers, athletes, or gladiators

i) Groups of soldiers

j) Gymnastic age-based group

c) Deities or heroes

Adonis

Adrasteia

Agathe Thea (Good Goddess)

Agathe Tyche

Agathos Daimon

Agdistis

Aglibol

Aineia / Aeneas (hero)

Aion

Allat

Ammon

Amphiaraos

Amphitrite

Amynos (hero)

Anaetis

Ancestral deities (unspecified)

Anthas (hero)

Anubis

Aphlad

Aphrodite

Apis

Apollo

Ares

Arsu

Artemis

Asklepios (Aesculapius)

Astarte

Atargatis / Pure Goddess

Athena

Attis

Aularkenos

Baal

Baal Shamim

Bel

Belela

Bendis

Bios ("Life")

Boreas

Boubastis / Bast

Cybele / Meter / Mother

Deloptes

Demeter

Dexion (hero)

Diana

Diktynna

Dionysos

Dioskouroi (Dioscuri)

Dushara

Echelos (hero)

Eros / Erotes

Etephila

Fate

Fortune

Furies (Erinyes)

Ganymede

God of the Judeans / Christians

Graces

Great Gods of Samothrace

Hadad

Hadran

Harpokrates

Hekate

Helena

Helios

Hellenistic ruler (as a deity)

Hephaistos

Hera

Herakles / Hercules

Hermanubis

Hermes

Hermouthis / Thermouthis / Renenutet

Hero or heroine

Hestia

Holiness (Hosios) and Justice (Dikaios)

Homonoia (Concord)

Horos / Horus

Hydreios

Hygeia / Hygiae

Hypodektes

Hypsistos

Iacchos

Isis

Jupiter

Kolanthes

Kore

Kosmos ("Universe")

Leto

Liber

Maia (Maieae)

Malakbel

Mandros

Men

Mercury

Minerva

Mithras

Muses

Mychios and Mychia

Nabu

Nemesis

Neptune

Nike (Victory)

Obadat / Obadas (king)

Orpheus

Osiris

Pan

Pistis (Faith)

Pnistia

Poseidon

Preietos

Priapos

Qos

Roma

Roman emperor or imperial figure (as a deity)

Sabazios

Sabbatistes

Sambathikos / Sabathikos

Sarapis

Savior(s)

Semele

Silvanus

Snonais

Sobek / Souchos / Petesouchos / Soknopaios

Sol Invictus

Tanais

Thripis

Yarhibol

Zeus

d) Group activities

Dancing

Festivals

Mysteries or initiations / initiates

Processions

Purifications

Sacrifices / meals

Singing and music

e) Benefactors / honorees

Civic official

Cultic functionary (priest or priestess)

Member (or leader) of the group

Military person

Royal official or ruler

Royal or Imperial official or king / emperor

f) Date

a) 4th century BCE

b) 3rd century BCE

c) 2nd century BCE

d) 1st century BCE

e) 1st century CE

f) 2nd century CE

g) 3rd century CE

h) 4th century CE

i) 5th century CE

j) 6th century CE

k) undated

g) Type of monument or document

Acclamation

Altar or altar base

Architrave

Aretalogy

Base

Bench(es)

Bequest or endowment

Bilingual text

Boundary marker

Bowl

Bronze or lead tablet

Bronze tablet

Building dedication or inscription

Bust

Candle-holder / Menorah

Cave inscription

censer

Civic records

Clock

Coin

Column

Confession / reconciliation inscription

Cornice

Court or trial records

Decree

Dedication inscription

Drum

Edict

entablature

Epigram / poem

Financial account or record

Financial Lease or Rent Document

Financial loan or contract document

Financial receipt

Foundation of a cult or rites

Fountain

Funerary text

Gem

Gold leaf or tablet

graffiti

Honorary inscription

Imperial or regal letter or decree

Inventory

Invitation

Latin

Law / regulation

Legal document

Letter

List of contributors / contributions

Manumission

Membership list

Mortgage or security document

Mosaic

Oath

Oracle

Ostracon

Papyrus document

Petition

Plaque

Property purchase records

Record of supplies or products

Relief

Reservation of a place or seating

Restoration monument

sarcophagus / coffin

Seal

Shield

Statue or statue base

Stoa

Story / narrative

table

Taxation document

throne

Vessel or vase

Victor list

Vow / Prayer

Wood tablet

Worship record

Book Information

▸ Book info
▸ Buy book

Online Resources

1a) Inventory of Ancient Associations
1b) Ghent Database of Roman Guilds
1c) RICIS: Isis and Sarapis inscriptions
2a) PHI Epigraphy Database (Greek)
2b) Papyri.info
2c) Inscriptiones Graecae: Greek and both German and English translations
2d) Eagle Project inscription search
2e) Collection of Greek Ritual Norms
2f) Inscriptiones Christianae Graecae
2g) Greek Economic Inscriptions
3a) Aphrodisias in Caria (Inscriptions of Aphrodisias)
3b) Arabia (Corpus of Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia)
3c) Attica (Attic Inscriptions, in English)
3d) Black Sea area (Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea)
3e) Boubon in Lycia (Survey Results of Boubon)
3f) Britain (Roman Inscriptions of Britain)
3g) Israel (Inscriptions of Israel / Palestine)
3h) Phrygia and Lykaonia (MAMA XI)
3i) Spain (Hispania Epigraphica)
3j) Tripolitana in Libya (Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania)
3k) Cyrenaica in Libya (Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica)
3l) Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica

Visitors

415,525

For best results, download and install a free unicode Greek font
that covers the more obscure characters (e.g. acrophonic numerals and monetary symbols),
preferably: New Athena Unicode, Cardo, Freeserif, Tahoma, or Quivira.

How to cite this website

All translations from the AGRW book (those with numbers in square brackets) are copyright Baylor University Press 2012.
The copyright of all other translations and photographs remain in the name of the translator or photographer identified.