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Author: Maria-Gabriella Parissaki

CAPInv. 792: thiasos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Thrace
ii. Region Propontic Thrace
iii. Site Panidon

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θίασος (RA 18 (1911): 447, no. 17, l. 4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) Imp.

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: RA 18 (1911): 447, no 17, l. 4

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) RA 18 (1911): 447, no 17 (Imp.)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Dedicatory inscription in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Stone fragment, broken at all sides (0.42 x 0.16)
ii. Source(s) provenance Seen by Seure in 1898 at Panidon, kept at the yard of the church of the Dormition of the Mother of God.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Seure, who saw the stone in 1898, read the following letters: l. 1: NKA, NKA; l. 2: ΥΕΑΣ, UEAS; l. 3: ΓΕΤΗ, GETΕ and l. 4: ΘΙΑΣΟ, THIASO and saw a possible reference to a thiasos of Asklepios or to the Ἀσιανοί, Asianoi of Perinthos (see CAPInv. 638). For the third line, he suggested the restitution: [θεῷ εὐερ]γέτῃ, [theoi euer]getei.
iii. Bibliography Seure, G. (1911), ‘Archéologie Thrace: Documents inédits ou peu connus’, RA 18: 447, no 17.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Due to the text's poor preservation, it is not clear whether the term thiasos refers here to a private association or to an ad hoc group of worshippers.