Stable URL: http://ancientassociations.ku.dk/assoc/276Download as PDF
Last Updated on 21 Feb 2017

Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. 276: koinon ton thiasoton

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Attica with Salamis
ii. Region Attica
iii. Site Salamis

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) κοινὸν τῶν θιασωτῶν (IG II2,ll. A 5-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) koinon ton thiasoton

III. DATE

i. Date(s) s. iv BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasotai
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν, koinon
Note koinon: IG II2,ll. A 5-6

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG II2 2347 (s. iv BC)
Note Ed. pr. Rangabes, A. (1855), Antiquites helleniques. Athenes, II no. 1247.
Other publications: Le Bas - Waddington 1634; CIG 110; Foucart no. 39; Fraenkel, M. (1897), Epigraphisches aus Aegina. Berlin, 13 no. 8; Michel no. 989; IG IV2 (2) 1077; GRA I 12.
Cf. SEG 47: 188. BE 1987, no. 573.
Online Resources IG II2 2347 and AGRW ID 3621
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek honorific inscription with a list of names of members appended.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele with a cymatium, measuring 0,64x0,70m. The text is written on the front and right side of the stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance The inscription was seen in the church of Panagia in Ambelakia, Salamis. Later it was transported to Aigina were it was recorded (thus included in the corpus of inscriptions of that island). Now in Aigina Museum.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members θιασῶται, thiasotai, A l. 1.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women
Note Men: 17 or 20.
Women: 3
iii. Age Adults
iv. Status Unidentified. See Arnaoutoglou 2011.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The association honoured Sosibios and Philistides for their generosity face A, ll. 1-2.
The association honoured 12 individuals for their virtue and fairness, face A, ll. 5-6.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland A12
iii. Bibliography Arnaoutoglou, I. (2003), Thusias heneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens. Athens, 67 n.112.
Arnaoutoglou, I. (2011), ‘‘Ils étaient dans la ville, mais tout à fait en dehors de la cité’. Status and identity in private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens’ in van Nijf, O., and Alston, R. (eds.), Political culture in the Greek city after the classical age. Leuven: 27-48.
Humphreys, S. (2013), ‘Some problematical Attic ‘lists’ with tribe and deme headings’, ZPE 172: 78-84.
Taylor, M. (1997), Salamis and the Salaminioi. The history of an unofficial Athenian demos. Amsterdam: 134-5.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The association displays all the hallmarks of a private association: distinct name, membership, organization, property and durability.