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Last Updated on 11 Jul 2019

Author: Andreas Victor Walser

CAPInv. 1403: ho thiasos ho Kataibaton

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Ionia
iii. Site Magnesia on the Maeander

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ὁ θίασος ὁ Καταιβατῶν (I.Magnesia 215 l. 36)
ii. Full name (transliterated) ho thiasos ho Kataibaton

III. DATE

i. Date(s) Hell. (?) - f. ii

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:The name Καταιβάται, Kataibatai, seems to reflect the name of Zeus Kataibates, "Zeus who descends in lightning".
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Magnesia 215
Note Jaccottet 2003 no. 146 (with a list of earlier editions)
Online Resources I.Magnesia
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Oracle from Delphi, ostensibly from the Hellenistic period, inscribed as a dedication to Dionysos in the Hadrianic period.
Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Slab of marble and base, in which the stele was inserted.
ii. Source(s) provenance Magnesia, near the so-calles 'Roman gymnasium'

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Θετταλή, Thettale, a μαινάς ἐκ Θηβῶν, mainas ek Thebon, "a Maenad from Thebes"
Gender Female
iii. Members μύσται, mystai

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women
Note Cf. Jaccottet 2003: I 77-78 on the question of the gender of the members.
iii. Age Adults
Elders

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The thiasos was obviously a religious association but no specific cultic activities are recorded. The inscription mentions orgia, "rites" and nomima, "(cultic) customs".
Deities worshipped Dionysos Bacchos

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The thiasos of the Katabatai is one of three Dionysiac societies in Magnesia introduced in consequence of an oracle (cf. XII.i). CAPInv. 1401, CAPInv. 1403.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments For all details cf. CAPInv. 1401, CAPInv. 1403.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The terminology (thiasos) and the religious character suggests a private association.