IGII34 646 [Dedication by?] a group of orgeones

[Dedication by?] a group of orgeones

IG II³ 4 646 Date: 4th-3rd cent. BC

These are orgeones of the – (?) Satyros son of Philippos Philokrates son of Philippos Phokiades son of Teisias (5) Kallenikos son of Euthymos.^[1]

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References:

IG II³ 4 646 (Translated text) (IG Online)

IG VII 33 (PHI)

SEG 57.173

SEG 57.416

Translation by: Stephen Lambert, Salvatore Tufano

Monument type: Unknown

Inscription type: Dedication (orgeones)?

Original location: [Eleusis]

Findspot: Megara (Lost)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] The inscription was recorded in Megara in the 15th century by Cyriacus of Ancona (E. W. Bodnar, Cyriacus of Ancona and Athens, 1960, 41). However, I. Arnaoutoglou, Thusias eneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens, 2003, 31 n. 1 suspected and S. G. Byrne in A. P. Matthaiou and I. Polinskaya eds., Μικρὸς Ἱερομνήμων. Μελέτες εἰς μνήμην M. H. Jameson, 2008, 120-21, confirmed that it probably originated in Eleusis, and that Phokiades son of Teisias (4) was a relation of Teisias son of Phokiades of Eleusis, at IG II³ 1, 1016, l. 70. On orgeones see LSCG 45 n. 1 and cf. IG II³ 4, 644. It is not clear whether this was a dedication or a list publicising confirmed members of the group, e.g. following a scrutiny (cf. οἵδε φράτερες, “These are phrateres”, IG II² 2344 = Lambert, Phratries T18, with note, p. 343). [Textual note: Eds. following Dittenberger have reconstructed Cyriacus’ ΓΕΟΡΓΕΩΕΣΥΩΝ in l. 1 as [οἵ]⟨δε⟩ ὀργεῶ⟨ν⟩ες ⟨τ⟩ῶν [θεῶν], “These are orgeones of the gods”, but this is an implausibly vague description for a group of this kind. More likely they were orgeones of specific heroes/heroines or divinities; cf. e.g. Agora XVI 161. SDL]

Added: 1 Jul 2019
Updated: 2 Jul 2021
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