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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1904: thiasos Alouliastan ton syn Apollonioi tou Asklepiodorou

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θίασος Ἀλουλιαστᾶν τῶν σὺν Ἀπολλωνίῳ τοῦ Ἀσκλεπιοδώρου (Carbon 2016, 201)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Alouliastan ton syn Apollonioi tou Asklepiodorou

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Ἀλουλιασταί, Alouliastai: the name refers to a group from the Near East who celebrated a festival called Aloulaia, derived from the name of the Near Eastern month Elul/Ululu
Personal:Apollonios tou Asklepiodorou (σὺν Ἀπολλωνίῳ τοῦ Ἀσκλεπιοδώρου, ll. 4-6)
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος
Note thiasos, l. 2: The term refers both specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Carbon 2016, 201 (1st c. BC)
Note IG XII.4 2781
Segre, I. Cos EF 458; RICIS Suppl. II 204/1011; Tsouli 2013: no. 640c with ph.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 53.
Online Resources PHI: I. Cos EF 458
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone, horos (cf. ὅρος, line 1). Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) White marble slab, with a rough foot for insertion into the ground.
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1) is to private burial plots for the group: thekaia (θηκαίων, line 2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Apollonios tou Asklepiodorou (σὺν Ἀπολλωνίῳ τοῦ Ἀσκλεπιοδώρου, ll. 4-6)
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments For the new reading of the name see Carbon 2016, 201. The group was known in earlier scholarship as A<n>ou<b>iastai.
iii. Bibliography Bricault, L. and Veymiers, R. (2011), 'Supplément no.2 au RICIS', in id. (eds.), Bibliotheca Isiaca II, Bordeaux: 273-307.

Carbon, J.-M. (2016), 'The Festival of the Aloulaia, and the Association of the Alouliastai. Notes Concerning the New Inscription from Larisa/Marmarini', Kernos 29, 185-208.

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

Segre, M. (2007), Iscrizioni di Cos, Epigrafi funerarie, Rome.

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

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note 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 the group constituted a private association.