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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1902: thiasos Homonoistan ton syn Dositheoi tou Nikanoros Damaskenou

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου Ὁμονοϊστᾶν τῶν σὺν Δωσιθέωι τοῦ Νικάνορος Δαμασκηνοῦ (IG XII.4 2825, lines 2-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Homonoistan ton syn Dositheoi tou Nikanoros Damaskenou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 200 (?) - 300 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Personal:Dositheos tou Nikanoros Damaskenos (σὺν Δωσιθέωι τοῦ Νικάνορος Δαμασκηνοῦ, lines 4-7)
Theophoric:Homonoistai (Ὁμονοϊστᾶν, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Note The term refers both specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2825 (copy 1), 2826 (copy 2)
Note Copy 1: Bosnakis, Epigraphes 284 with ph.; SEG 55.937bis and 58.887; Tsouli 2013: no. 567.

Copy 2: Bosnakis, Epigraphes 285; SEG 55.937ter and 58.888; Tsouli 2013: no. 568.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 47.
Online Resources Copy 1:
PHI: Epigraphes 284

Copy 2: PHI: Epigraphes 285
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stones, horoi (cf. ὅροι, line 1). Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Copy 1: white marble stele.

Copy 2: white marble stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance Copy 1: uncertain location in the city of Kos.

Copy 2: found in reuse in an uncertain location of the city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the two boundary stones (ὅροι, line 1, in both copies) is to private burial plots for the group: thekaia (θηκαίων, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Dositheos tou Nikanoros Damaskenos (σὺν Δωσιθέωι τοῦ Νικάνορος Δαμασκηνοῦ, lines 4-7)
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader. His ethnic reveals an origin in Damascus.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

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

XI. INTERACTION

ii. Interaction abroad See above VII.i. The founder or leader of the group is from Damascus.

XII. NOTES

iii. 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.

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 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.