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Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. 1538: thiasotai Demoto

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασῶται Δημότο (IG II2 2720, ll. 3-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasotai Demoto

III. DATE

i. Date(s) m. iv (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasotai

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG II2 2720 (m. iv (?) BC)
Note Ed. pr.: AD 1888: 115, no. 3
Other publications:RIJG i 112: no. 29; Finley 1951: no. 43; Lambert 1993: 86; Lambert 1996: 77
Online Resources IG II2 2720
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek horos inscription recording the sale of land subject to redemption for 100dr.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble stele measuring 0.36x0.30x0.09m.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found built in a tower in the Acropolis, now in EM 10191.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership On the basis of the presence of the genitive of the proper name Demotes in the nomenclature of the group, perhaps Demotes (Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (1)) was the leader.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments On the basis of the genitive Δημότο (Demoto) a date in the mid 4th century BC is more likely, Threatte 1996: ii 150-4.
ii. Poland concordance Poland A 23
iii. Bibliography Arnaoutoglou, I. (2003), Thusias heneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens. Athens.
Cohen, E. (1992), Athenian economy and society. A banking perspective. Princeton: 207-15.
Faraguna, M. (2012), ‘Diritto, economia, societa: riflessioni su eranos tra eta omerica e mondo ellenistico’, in B. Legras (ed.), Transferts culturels et droits dans le monde grec et hellenistique, Paris: 129-53.
Finley, M. (1951), Studies in land and credit in ancient Athens, 500-200 B.C. The Horos inscriptions. New Brunswick.
Harris, E. (2013), ‘Finley’s Studies in land and credit sixty years later’, Dike 16: 123-46.
Ismard, P. (2010), La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations VIe – Ier siècle av. J.-C. Paris: 281-4.
Lambert, S. (1993), The phratries of Attica. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Lambert, S. (1996), ‘Notes on two Attic horoi and some corrigenda to The phratries of Attica’, ZPE 110: 77-9.
Millett, P. (1991), Lending and borrowing in ancient Athens. Cambridge.
Thomsen, Chr. (2015), ‘The eranistai of classical Athens’, GRBS 55: 154-75.
Threatte, L. (1996), The grammar of Attic inscriptions. Berlin.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Lambert 1996: 78-9 argues that the improved reading he proposed suggests that thiasotai were members of thiasoi, to be understood as subdivisions of phratries. But were these subdividions of phratries able to contract loans?