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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1837: thiasou [A]thenaistai [t]on syn Kephaloni toi Agathonos neoteroi

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Kos
iii. Site Kos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου [Ἀ]θ̣ηναϊστᾶν [τ]ῶν σὺν Κεφάλωνι τῶι Ἀγάθωνος νεωτέρῳ (IG XII.4 2792, lines 2-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasou [A]thenaistai [t]on syn Kephaloni toi Agathonos neoteroi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 BC - 100 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 1)
Personal:Kephaloni toi Agathonos neoteroi (Κεφάλωνι τῶι Ἀγάθωνος νεωτέρῳ, lines 3-6)
Theophoric:Athenaistai ([Ἀ]θ̣ηναϊστᾶν, line 2)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 1)
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2792 (copy 1) and 2793 (more fragmentary copy, 2).
Copy 2: Fragmentary copy of the same text on another, seemingly contemporaneous boundary stone.
Note Copy 1: Segre, I. Cos EF 399; Tsouli 2013: no. 637c with ph.

Copy 2: Segre, I. Cos EF 400, with ph.; SEG 57.781.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 20.
Online Resources PHI: EF 399

Harland, AGRW 11670

Cf. also: PHI: EF 400
and:
Harland, AGRW 11713
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stones of a burial plot. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) 1- Cippus of white marble, with base meant to be inserted into the ground.
2 - Cippus of white marble, broken above.
ii. Source(s) provenance 1- Found in the city of Kos, built into a wall.
2 - Found during demolition work in the city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1) is unclear, but was perhaps meant to refer to burial plots, thekaia, as we find in other text (cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Kephalon the younger son of Agathon (lines 3-6).
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Athena.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography S. Maillot (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.

M. Segre (2007), Iscrizioni di Cos, Epigrafi funerarie, Rome.

C. Tsouli, Ταφικὰ και επιτάφια μνημεία της Κω, diss. Athens 2013.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association and its context. But simply on the basis of its name and by comparison with other highly similar boundary stones of the burial plots of associations found near the city of Kos (more than 50 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.