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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1832: thiasi[tan] ton sy[n Ag]esim[achoi]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασι[τᾶν] τῶν σὺ[ν Ἁγ]ησιμ[άχῳ] (IG XII.4 2814, lines 2-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasi[tan] ton sy[n Ag]esim[achoi]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 (?) BC - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasitai (θιασι[τᾶν], line 2)
Personal:syn Agesimachoi (σὺ[ν Ἁγ]ησιμ[άχῳ], lines 3-4).
iii. Descriptive terms thiasitai (θιασι[τᾶν], line 2)
Note The term thiasos both refers to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2814.
Note Maiuri, NSER 497.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 15.
Online Resources PHI: NSER 497
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: marble place.
ii. Source(s) provenance Near the ciity of Kos, inserted into a wall at the place called Abavris.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1) is unclear. In other similar cases, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826, thekaia or burial plots are explicitly mentioned.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Agesimachos (lines 3-4).
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.
iii. Members thiasitai (θιασι[τᾶν], line 2)

X. ACTIVITIES

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

XII. NOTES

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

A. Maiuri (1925), Nuova silloge epigrafica di Rodi e Cos, Florence.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, its context or forms of worship. But simply on the basis of its name and by comparison with other highly similar boundary stones found near the city of Kos (more than 50 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be reasonably confident that it constituted a private association.