In the city of Thessalonike there was another professional association, which was formed by the owners of merchant ships. Kerdemporoi, association of merchant ship owners A fragmentary inscription indicating the existence of purple dying industry is attested in Philippi, Macedonia although some scholars dispute its authenticity. Henceforth, there is a connection with Macedonia, because Thyateira is located in Asia Minor. In cities like Tyre, Philippi, Thessalonike, and regions of Asia Minor and Egypt. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the purple dying industry was very important during Hellenistic and Roman periods. Although, we are not exactly sure that there is a connection between this hero god and the person. We also acknowledge the existence of the Thracian horseman, elsewhere attested as the Thracian hero, Thracian rider. It seems this inscription is referring to a member of this guild in a memorial, honored by the other members after his death. The guild of purple dyers, located in the eighteenth street (honored) Menippos, son of Amios, also called Severus the Thyateiran in his memory. Going more into depth, we can examine the inscription and transliterate it. On the lower part, we have the inscription regarding this professional association of purple dyers, inside a border. On the top part, we recognize the figure of the Thracian horseman ( heros equitans). The inscription is on a rectangular white marble stele, with the two pieces joined together. The inscription is now located in Istanbul Museum. We find another professional association with the name synitheia in Thessalonike, Macedonia in late 2 nd c. The decision of honoring Augustus as a god, is signed by all the three parties and reveals many things about the civic units, provincial society, activities and interactions that had existed in Roman Macedonia and eastern Mediterranean from 1 st c. In Roman colonies and Greek cities, the paroikoi were not fully integrated within the population, something that is different within the formerly Macedonian cities. We can see that the last two groups were not fully integrated with the population of the polis. It mentions the polis, the negotiatores and the paroikoi have come to conclusion to erect a statue of Augustus in their town. This inscription is located on a circular statue base with a diameter of one meter. We know that Akanthus was a strategic town with harbor and a point of departure for the products of the south-eastern part of the peninsula, such as wood, Thracian slaves, gold, silver, pyrite, cured meat and feathers for pillows. In Akanthus, we have the evidence of a professional association of Roman merchants that were called negotiatores, based on an inscription that was found there, for the cult of Augustus. One fine example would be the address of a specific problem such as defraying the cost of a decent funeral and burial. The activities of these associations were multiple, as we shall see in the chapters of this essay. When we examine the middle and lower social classes of this period, we unavoidably step into associations. Some of them claimed the protection of the god Dionysus and are known from inscriptions dating from the 2 nd and 3 rd centuries to have existed in Thessaloniki, Lete and Philippi, as well as in other regions and important cities in the neighboring province of Thrace. Associations and guilds bloomed in this period. These people transferred ideas, customs and aspects of daily life as well. This was also a period of migrations of people from the areas of Asia Minor (Bithynia, Troas, Ionia) and fewer from Italy and southern Greece. With the Roman measures that came by force, a substantial number of Macedonian citizens vanished or abandoned their homes and resettled. Later, in 146 BC, we have the official establishment of the Provincia Macedoniae by the Romans. Aemilius Paullus, the victor of Pydna, gathered the representatives of Macedonian poleis and ethne in Amphipolis in order to announce decisions taken by the Romans regarding new laws and partition of the kingdom into four districts (regiones / merides). In 168-167 BC, we have the dissolution of the Macedonian kingdom by the Romans and a new political reality in the region. The Freelance History Writer is pleased to welcome Grigorios Charalampidis, philologist and private tutor as a guest on the blog.
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