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Last Updated on 14 Mar 2017

Author: Alexandru Avram

CAPInv. 1289: thiesos, l. thiasos

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Black Sea Region
ii. Region North coast of the Black Sea
iii. Site Pantikapaion

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θίεσος (l. θίασος, CIRB 137)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiesos, l. thiasos

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: CIRB 137, l. 10

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) CIRB 137 (i AD).
Note See also: GV I 1316
Online Resources CIRB 137
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek verse inscription on a tombstone for a member of the θίασος, thiasos. Three elegiac couplets.
i.c. Physical format(s) Limestone stele.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Only one member is named, i.e. Lysimachos Gastei the deceased. His companions are designated (v. 4) as ἥλικες <οἱ> θιέσου (θιάσου), helikes <hoi> thiasou, ‘the comrades of the same age of the thiasos’.

XII. NOTES

ii. Poland concordance Poland B 117 J
iii. Bibliography Ustinova, Y. (1999), The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom. Celestial Aphrodite and the Most High God. Leiden, Boston, Cologne: 197.
Zavojkina, N.V. (2012), Bosporskie fiasy: mezhdu polisom i monarkhiej [Bosporan Thiasoi: Between Polis and Monarchy]. Moscow: 52.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology employed (thiasos) suggest a private association.