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Last Updated on 14 Jan 2019

Author: Mario C.D. Paganini

CAPInv. 1571: U-EGY-049

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Egypt
ii. Nome Arsinoites (00)
iii. Site Aphrodites Polis

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-EGY-049

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 134 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: P.Köln. XI 455, l. 18

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) P.Köln. XI 455 (after 6 January 134 BC)
Online Resources P.Köln. XI 455
TM 112490
AGRW ID 20928
i.a. Source type(s) Papyrological source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek petition to the strategus of the Arsinoites.
i.c. Physical format(s) Papyrus.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The text is fragmentary and the passage where the term thiasos appears (P.Köln. XI 455, l. 18) is immediately after a lacuna: this renders the exact interpretation of the term difficult. A possible reconstruction of the passage may be: [γενόμενος ἀπὸ το]ῦ̣ θιάσου εὗρον̣ τὸν | [Μαρρῆν] κτλ. [genomenos apo to]u thiasou heuron ton [Marren] etc (ll. 18-19) 'Upon my return from (a meeting of?) the association, I found Marres etc'. The petitioner was wronged by this Marres, who seems to have acted in an unlawful manner towards him (according to what can be gathered from the lacunose text, the man may have had an affair with the petitioner's wife and been caught in flagrante delicto).

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Given the fragmentary state of the text, it is possible that the term thiasos indicates a private association. However, it may also indicate a festival.