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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1947: thiasos Ask[lap]iastan ton syn

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θί{σ}ασο[ς] Ἀσκ[λαπ]ιαστᾶν τῶν σὺν (IG XII.4 2807, ll. 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Ask[lap]iastan ton syn

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 AD - 100

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:θίασος, thiasos (l. 1)
Personal:After τῶν σὺν in line 3, the remaining line 4 has been left empty, but it would have been expected to include a personal name ("those with X"). Either the cutting of the stone was incomplete or the line is now completely effaced (see IG ad loc.).
Theophoric:Ἀσκ[λαπ]ιασταὶ, Asklapiastai (ll. 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος
Note thiasos (l. 1): The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2807 (1-100 AD)
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone, presumably of a burial plot. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Plaque of white marble
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in a certain tower in the city, perhaps brought from the church of Panagia of Tarsos, i.e. the Asklepieion.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος) is not explicitly mentioned, but may be presumed to have been burial plots, thekaia, as in other cases from Kos.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) See above IV.ii. for the personal name which is missing. This individual will have been either the founder or the leader of the association.
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
The probable findspot (V.ii.) suggests that the group may have had some connection with the Asklepieion of Kos.
Deities worshipped Asklepios.

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.