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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1833: thiasitai t[on] sim Philoni

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασιτῶν τ[ῶν] σὶμ Φίλωνι (IG XII.4 2773, lines 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasitai t[on] sim Philoni

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasitai (θιασιτῶν, line 2)
Personal:sym Philoni (σ<ὺ>μ Φίλωνι, line 3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasitai (θιασιτῶν, line 2)
The term thiasos both refers to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2773.
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 209; Tsouli 2013: no. 612c with ph.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 16.
Online Resources PHI: EF 209
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) Marble plaque, with a base meant to be inserted into the ground.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found during demolition work in the city of Kos (original context lost).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (here [ὅρο]ι, line 1--perhaps indicating that this stone was one of many markers) is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκαί[ων] line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Philon (line 3)
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 (θιασιτῶν, 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.

C. Tsouli, Ταφικὰ και επιτάφια μνημεία της Κω, diss. Athens 2013.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, its context or its forms of worship. But simply on the basis of its name and by comparison with other highly similar boundary stones of the burial plots of associations near the city of Kos (more than 40 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.