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Last Updated on 27 Feb 2017

Author: Takashi Fujii

CAPInv. 1487: Soanteion ho thiasos tes Artemidos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Cyprus
ii. Region Cyprus
iii. Site Larnaka (ancient Kition)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Σοαντείων ὁ θίασος τῆς Ἀρτέμιδ̣ο̣ς (I.Kition 2019, ll. 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Soanteion ho thiasos tes Artemidos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) e. ii (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Ethnic:Soanteioi may mean the inhabitants of a place called Soanta, which could be identified with the village of Sinda in the Mesaoria (SEG 39: 1526; see also Hermary 2004: 55, n. 54). Cf. Nikolaou 1989: 142-3, no. 3.
Theophoric:Artemis
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: I.Kition 2019, l. 2

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Kition 2019 (e. ii (?) BC)
Note Originally found in 1865 (LBW no. 2725), then lost, and discovered reused in a house in Larnaka. Cf. Nikolaou 1989: 142-3, no. 3.
Online Resources I.Kition 2019 and AGRW 20450
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek honorific inscription set up by the association on behalf of Timokrates, son of Stasioikos, and his family members.
i.c. Physical format(s) A plaque of black marble
ii. Source(s) provenance Originally found in 1865, then lost, and discovered reused in the house of Mrs Pieridou in Larnaka (ancient Kition); now in the Larnaka District Museum.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The members of the association may have been the military settlers and their descendants. See Mitford 1961: 141-2, no. 39; Nikolaou 1989: 142-3, no. 3; Hermary 2004: 54-5.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities I.Kition 2019 testifies to an honorific inscription in which the association honoured Timokrates, son of Stasioikos, perhaps a member of the association.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 299
iii. Bibliography Hermary, A. (2004), ‘Autour de Golgoi: Les cités de la Mesaoria à l’époque hellénistique et sous l’Empire’, CCEC 34: 47-68.
Mitford, T.B. (1961), ‘Further Contributions to the Epigraphy of Cyprus’, AJA 65: 93-151.
Nikolaou, I. (1989), ‘Inscriptiones Cypriae Alphabeticae XXVIII, 1988’, RDAC 1989: 141-50.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology employed (thiasos) and the character of the document point to the fact that this was a private association.