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Last Updated on 20 May 2019

Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1676: ho thiasos ho [Si]mal[ion]os

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Teos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ὁ θίασος ὁ [Σι]μαλ[ίων]ος (BCH 4: 164, no. 21, ll. 2.1-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) ho thiasos ho [Si]mal[ion]os

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 172 - 150 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:"Of Simalion"
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: BCH 4: 164, no. 21, ll. 2.1-2

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) BCH 4: 164, no. 21 (172 - 150 BC)
Note See also:
Boulay 2013: 269
Online Resources BCH 4: 164, no. 21
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription, Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble block, with 9 crowns depicted
ii. Source(s) provenance From a cemetery in Sığacık

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership The name suggests that the association was led by Simalion, who may also have been its founder.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction BCH 4: 164, no. 21 attests to a collaboration of 9 different groups. Of these, 2 are boards of magistrates, 5 may be legitimately labeled private associations, and 2 may be either, as their names are only fragmentarily preserved (οἱ σὺν ..., hoi syn ...).

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 340
iii. Bibliography Boulay, Th. (2013), ‘Les « groupes de référence » au sein du corps civique de Téos’, in P. Fröhlich, and P. Hamon (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Genève: 251-75.
Pottier, E., and Hauvette-Besnault, A. (1880), ‘Inscriptions d’Érythrées et de Téos’, BCH 4: 153-82.
Suys, V. (2005), ‘Les associations cultuelles dans la cité aux époques hellénistique et impériale’, in V. Dasen, and M. Pierart (eds.), Ἰδίᾳ καὶ δημοσίᾳ. Les cadres "privés" et "publics" de la religion grecque antique, Liège: 203-18.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Nothing is known about this association beyond the mere name. In Teos, associations were more closely linked to the "société civique" than in most other cities (Suys 2005: 207; Boulay 2013). Cooperation with civic institutions was normal, as is the case in this inscription. The association may nevertheless have been essentially private (cf. the thiasos of Anaxipolis).
ii. Historical authenticity Certain