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I. LOCATION

i.	Geographical area	Central Greece
ii.	Region	Thessaly. Tetras of Pelasgiotis.
iii.	Site	City of Larisa.

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	Σουιδάουν τὸ κοινὸν (SEG 35: 604, ll. 1-2).
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	Souidaoun to koinon

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

iv BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Kinship-related:	It has been argued that Souidai must be a local phratry (Kontogiannis1985: 116-21) or the name has been listed among those whose reference to a civic division cannot be specified (Darmezin and Tziafalias 2007: 28).
Personal:	The personal names Souidas and Souidaios are very common in Larisa (for example, IG IX.2 720; IG IX.2 517; SEG 26: 675) and the entire region of Pelasgiotis (for example, in the neighbouring city of Scotoussa, AD 43 and CHR 282).

iii.

Descriptive terms

κοινόν, koinon

Note

koinon: SEG 35: 604, ll. 1-2

V. SOURCES

i.	Source(s)	SEG 35: 604 (iv BC)
	Note	See also: IG IX.2 580 Heinz 1998: 300, no cat. 232
	Online Resources	SEG 35: 604 IG IX.2 580
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	SEG 35: 604 is a fragmentary votive inscription in Greek to Herakles dedicated by the koinon. Twelve names and patronymics of the members are listed below. Some more surely follow that list.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	SEG 35: 604 is a large fragmentary pedimental stele. Bottom part is missing. It bears a votive inscription. Above the votive inscription, there is a rectangular shaped hole for the suspension of a metal object -probably a wreath (Heinz 1998: 300, no. cat. 232, fig. 10).
ii.	Source(s) provenance	City of Larisa (now in the museum of Larisa, Inv. no. 257)

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i.

Archaeological remains

The area of the ancient city of Larisa has delivered a significant record of finds (public architecture, sculpture, inscriptions, coins and small finds) dating to the classical period (Decourt, Nielsen, Helly et al. 2004: 695-7).

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii.

Members

SEG 35: 604 delivers the names of twelve male members of the koinon.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i.	Number	SEG 35: 604 delivers the names of twelve members of the koinon.
ii.	Gender	Men

X. ACTIVITIES

iii.	Worship	Dedication of a stele to Herakles.
	Deities worshipped	Herakles

XII. NOTES

ii.	Poland concordance	Poland B 48
iii.	Bibliography	Darmezin, L., and Tziafalias, A. (2007), ‘The Twelve Tribes of Atrax: a Lexical Study’, in E. Matthews (ed.), Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics, Oxford: 21-8. Decourt, J.-C., Nielsen, Th.H., Helly, Br. et al. (2004), ‘Thessalia and adjacent regions’, in M.H. Hansen and Th.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, Oxford: 676-731. Heinz, M. (1998), Thessalische Votivstelen. Bochum: 300-1, fig. 10. Kontogiannis, A. (1985), Πρακτικά του Α΄ Ιστορικου-Αρχαιολογικού Συμποσίου Λάρισα Παρελθόν και Μέλλον, 26-28 Απριλίου 1985. Larisa: 116-21. Mili, M. (2015). Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly. Oxford: 349.

XIII. EVALUATION

i.	Private association	Probable
	Note	The use of the term koinon and the display of common cultic activity point to the presence of a probable associative group of low intensity.
ii.	Historical authenticity	The inscription renders the presence of the association certain.

CAPInv. 1032: Souidaoun to koinon