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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1827: Athanaistai ton syn Drako[nti]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἀθαναϊστᾶν τῶν σὺν Δ̣ρά̣κ̣ο[ντι] (IG XII.4 2820, lines 2-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Athanaistai ton syn Drako[nti]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 (?) - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:Athanaistai, Ἀθαναϊστᾶν (line 2)
Personal:syn Drakonti, σὺν Δ̣ρά̣κ̣ο[ντι] (line 4)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2820.
Note Paton-Hicks 157; SGDI III,1 3679.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 10.
Online Resources PHI: Paton-Hicks 157

Harland, AGRW no. 4516
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone of a burial plot; Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone: upper portion of a cippus.
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of city of Kos (part of the area of the necropolis).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκαίων, lines 1-2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Drakon (Δ̣ρά̣κ̣ο[ντι], line 3).
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Athena.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography W.R. Paton, E.L. Hicks (1891), The Inscriptions of Cos, Oxford.

S. Maillot (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, such as its context. But simply on the basis of its name and of 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.