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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1844: thiasos ton syn Nikiai

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Kos
iii. Site Kos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου τῶν σὺν Νικίαι (IG XII.4 2775, lines 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos ton syn Nikiai

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 200 (?) - 100 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Personal:syn Nikiai (σὺν Νικίαι, line 3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2775.
Note Bosnakis, Epigraphes 273; SEG 58, 876; Tsouli 2013: no. 615.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 27.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 273
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone of a burial plot.
Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone: rectangular block of white marble.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος) is to a series of burial grounds or structures, thekai (θηκᾶν, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Nikias (line 3).
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Unclear.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography D. Bosnakis (2008), Anekdotes epigraphes tes Ko, Epitymvia mnemeia kai horoi, Athens.

S. Maillot (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.

C. Tsouli, Ταφικὰ και επιτάφια μνημεία της Κω, diss. Athens 2013.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, its context, or its possible forms of worship. But simply on the basis of its name and by comparison with other highly similar boundary stones of the burial plots of associations near the city of Kos (more than 40 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.