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Geographical area |
Aegean Islands
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Region |
Kos
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Site |
Kos
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Full name (original language) |
θιάσος Ποσιδανιστᾶν τῶν σὺν ⟦Ἡ⟧ρακλείδην (IG XII.4 2824, lines 1-4)
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Full name (transliterated) |
thiasos Posidanistan ton syn Herakleiden
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Date(s)
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100 (?) - 200 (?) AD
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Name elements |
Cultic: | thiasos (θιάσου, line 1) | Personal: | syn Herakleiden (σὺν ⟦Ἡ⟧ρακλείδην, lines 3-4) | Theophoric: | Posidanistai (Ποσιδανιστᾶν, lines 2-3) |
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Descriptive terms |
thiasos (θιάσου, line 1)
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Note |
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.
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Source(s) |
IG XII.4 2824.
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Note |
Bosnakis, Epigraphes 287; SEG 58.890; Tsouli 2013: no. 662.
Cf. Maillot 2013: no. 38.
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Online Resources |
PHI: Epigraphes 288
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Source type(s) |
Epigraphic source(s)
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Document(s) typology & language/script |
Boundary stone, horos (cf. ὅρος, line 1). Greek.
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Physical format(s) |
Stele of white marble, broken at the bottom.
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Source(s) provenance |
Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of city of Kos (part of the area of the necropolis).
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References to buildings/objects |
The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1), on the analogy of similar texts from Kos and on the basis of the findspot, may be presumed to be to private burial plots for the group (thekaia).
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Founder(s) |
Herakleides (Ἡρακλείδην, line 4) This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
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Gender |
Male
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Leadership |
See above.
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Worship |
See above IV.ii.
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Deities worshipped |
Poseidon.
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Bibliography |
D. Bosnakis (2008), Anekdotes epigraphes tes Ko, Epitymvia mnemeia kai horoi, Athens.
S. Maillot (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.
C. Tsouli, Ταφικὰ και επιτάφια μνημεία της Κω, diss. Athens 2013.
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Private association |
Certain
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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 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.
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