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Last Updated on 14 Mar 2017

Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1290: to koinon ton thiasiton (l. thiasoton)

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Black Sea Region
ii. Region North coast of the Black Sea
iii. Site Pantkapaion

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) τὸ κοινὸν τῶν θιασιτῶν (l. θιασωτῶν, SEG 55: 863)
ii. Full name (transliterated) to koinon ton thiasiton (l. thiasoton)

III. DATE

i. Date(s) m. ii AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Other:thiasotai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν, koinon
Note koinon: SEG 55: 863

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) SEG 55: 863 (m. ii AD)
Note Although published since 1908, this object is less known in the literature.
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek honorific inscription put by the association for Ioulios Kallisthenes παραφιλάγαθος διὰ βίου, paraphilagathos dia biou.
i.c. Physical format(s) Golden frontlet in the form of a tabula ansata (now at the Hermitage State Museum).

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials Ioulios Kallisthenes παραφιλάγαθος διὰ βίου, paraphilagathos dia biou

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The κοινὸν τῶν θιασιτῶν, koinon ton thiasiton could be identical with either CAPInv. 1281 or CAPInv. 1285.
ii. Poland concordance Poland B 117 C
iii. Bibliography Matsulevich, L.A. (1941): ‘Kto byl Kallisfen, nazvannyj v nadpisi otkrytoj v Kerch v 1894 g.? [Who was Kallisthenes Named by the Inscription Discovered at Kerch in the Year 1894?]’, Sovetskaja Arkheologija 7: 62-7 (SEG 55, 863).
Shkorpil, V.V. (1908), ‘Bosporskie nadpisi najdennie v 1907 g. [Bosporan Inscriptions Discovered in the Year 1907]’, Izvestija Imperatorskoj Arkheologicheskoj Komisii 27: 42-54, esp. 43 for the frontlet.
Ustinova, Y. (1999), The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom. Celestial Aphrodite and the Most High God. Leiden, Boston, Cologne: 197.
Zavojkina, N.V. (2012), Bosporskie fiasy: mezhdu polisom i monarkhiej [Bosporan Thiasoi: Between Polis and Monarchy]. Moscow: 54-6.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology employed points to a private association.