Festival: Capitolia in Oxyrhynchos (Egypt)

Festival ID: 945
Festival Name: Capitolia
Festival Status:
isocapitolic
penteteric
eiselastikos
hieros
Festival Place: Oxyrhynchos (Egypt)
List of Participants:
Aurelius Demetrios son of Diophanes from Hermopolis Magna (Egypt)
Aurelius Apollonios (Klaudianos) from Oxyrhynchos (Egypt)
Comment: The festival had contests for musicians/artists, athletes, and horsemen. See l. 16 of the papyrus SB I 5225: ἐγράψαμεν οὖν ὑμῖν, ἵνʼ εἰδῆτε. ἔρρωσθε. ἐγένετο ἐν τῇ λαμπ]ρᾷ καὶ λαμπροτάτῃ Ὀ[ξυρυγχειτῶ]ν [πό]λει, ἀγῶνος ἀγομένου πρώτου ἱεροῦ εἰσελαστικοῦ οἰκουμενικοῦ πενταετηρικοῦ σκηνικοῦ γυμνικοῦ ἱππικοῦ ἰσοκαπιτωλίου τῶν 17[μεγάλων Καπιτωλίων ]