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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1908: thiasos sito[metron(?) —]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου σιτομέ[τρων(?) —] (IG XII.4, lines 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos sito[metron(?) —]

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Professional:sitometrai (σιτομέ[τρων(?) —], lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Note The term refers both specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2800.
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 454; SEG 57.788; Tsouli 2013: no. 743c with ph.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 59.
Online Resources PHI: I. Cos EF 454
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 fragment, broken below.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found during demolition work in an unknown location in the 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 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members sitometrai (σιτομέ[τρων(?) —], lines 2-3)
The association appears to be composed of professional grain-measurers and inspectors. For other associations of sitometrai, see CAP inv. 71.

X. ACTIVITIES

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

XII. NOTES

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

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

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.