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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1849: thiasos Agathodaimonistan ton syn Monimoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶ[ν] τῶν σὺν Μονίμωι (IG XII.4 2779, lines 2-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Agathodaimonistan ton syn Monimoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 (?) - 1 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, lines 2-3)
Personal:syn Monimoi (σὺν Μονίμωι, lines 5-6)
Theophoric:Agathodaimonistai (Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶ[ν], lines 3-4)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, lines 2-3)

The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2779.
Note Bosnakis AD 49/50 (1994/95) 59, n. 167; SEG 48.1120; Bosnakis, Epigraphes 279, with ph. fig. 84; SEG 58.882; Tsouli 2013: no. 626.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 32.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 279
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 amygdalopetra, of the type called Travertin, with a rough foot for insertion.
ii. Source(s) provenance Necropolis in the Marmaroto neighbourhood.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος) is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκαίων, line 2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Monimos, lines 5-6.
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Agathos Daimon or Agathoi Daimones.

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 and its context. 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.