Neokoros
As Neokoros ( Greek νεωκόρος "temple guardian"; plural Neokoroi or Germanized Neokoren ) one referred to officials who supervised a temple in Greek antiquity .
Under the Roman emperors , in whose imperial cult Neokoroi were also installed as priests , their office was an honorary post . Entire cities in the east of the empire also received the title Neokoros on coins and in inscriptions when they had built a temple for the emperor. In some provinces (such as Asia ) there was a competition between the cities, which of them had achieved the most neocories.
In the case of the city of Ephesus , the Pion Mountains were stylized on coins instead of the city as the Neokoros of Artemis Ephesia .
literature
- Johannes Einartner : Isis and her servants in the art of the Roman Empire (= Mnemosyne. Supplement 115). Brill, Leiden et al. 1991, ISBN 90-04-09312-5 (at the same time: Munich, Univ., Diss., 1982).
- Steven J. Friesen: Twice Neokoros. Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family (= Religions in the Graeco-Roman World. Vol. 116). Brill, Leiden et al. 1993, ISBN 90-04-09689-2 .
- Barbara Burrell: Neokoroi. Greek Cities and Roman Emperors (= Cincinnati Classical Studies New Series Vol. 9). Brill, Leiden et al. 2004, ISBN 90-04-12578-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Staubli: Artemis of Ephesus and the Ephesian coin images ; PDF ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
