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Membership List (frag.) of a Company Engaged in Mysteries (II-III CE) Thessalonike - Macedonia


Thessalonike (Macedonia, Greece and Macedonia — Pleiades map), II-III CE
A. Lioutas and M. Mandaki, ΑΕΜΘ 11 (1997) [1999] 371-374 = SEG 49 (1999), no. 814 = AGRW ID# 20700


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Right upper part of a slab of marble. This fragmentary inscription lists 28 members of the group, 9 of them women. TItles and leadership positions include chief-initiates (archimystai), several chief rod-bearers (archidranearchai), a gallaros (precise meaning unknown, but likely a term for a "member"), initiates (mystai), a "mother of the company" (mētēr speiras), and several other female functionaries.

Too fragmentary to translate.

Translation by: Harland



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[- - - - - -]πος Τιβ(έριος) Προφάνιος | [- - - - - -ἀρχ]ιμύστης Ἀλέξανδρος | [- - - - - -]στης ἀρχικρανεάρχης | [- - - - - -] ἀρχιγάλλαρος vac. || [- - - - - -] ἀρχιμαγαρεὺς ἀθύτου | [- - - - - -]ιοφορος vac. | [- - - - - -]ος ἀρχικρανάρχης | [- - - - - -]ανεάρχης vac. || [- - - - - -]ος (γ)άλλαρος Τερεντία | [- - - - - - ἀρ]χιερεὺς · Κλωδία Πῶλ|[- - - - - -]ος λα νεβριαφόρος | [- - - - - -]ς · παλεομύστης vac. || [- - - - - -κ]ρανάρχης vac. | [- - - - - -] ἀρχιμύστης | [- - - - - -Πε]τρώνιος Ἰοῦστος [μ]ύ[στ]ης | [- - - - - -ος] Λούκιος ἀρχιμ(ύστης) || [- - - - -]μος v [κ]ρανεάρχης | [- - - - - -]ος Σύμφορος Μα | [- - - - - -]ος

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ΠΡΩΦΑ | Νικόπολις μήτηρ σπείρας | καὶ Κουάρτα | Ῥουπιλία Λαιτιλία || Μεστρία ἀρχιλαμπαδηφόρος | Ῥουπιλλία · Μαρκία | Ῥουπιλλία · Ἀρτεμιδώρα | Διονυσία. . . . . . . .Πλω||τιανὴ Θεοδώρα | μαγάρεισα καὶ νεβραφόρος | Φολκιλλία · Βενερία μαγά(ρεισσα) | Παραμόνα νε||βρίνη καὶ μαγάρισσα | ΚΥΗΤΙΑΠ

Item added: December 26, 2015
Item modified: February 12, 2016
ID number: 20700
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