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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1846: thiasitai hoi syn Dorotheoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασῖται οἱ σὺν Δωροθέωι (IG XII.4 2776 ll. 2-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasitai hoi syn Dorotheoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 2)
Personal:syn Dorotheoi, σὺν Δωροθέωι (lines 3-4)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 2)
The term thiasos both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2776 (2nd c. BC)
Note Bosnakis, Epigraphes no. 275
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 29.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 275
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.
ii. Source(s) provenance City of Kos?

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος) is to burial plots of the group, thekaia (θηκαίων, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Dorotheos (line 4)
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
iii. Members thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 2)

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above 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.

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 50 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.