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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1840: thiasitai ton syn Zopyro[i] toi Zopyrou

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασῖται οἱ σὺν Ζωπύρω[ι] τῶι Ζωπύρου (IG XII.4 460, ll. 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasitai ton syn Zopyro[i] toi Zopyrou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) f. ii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 1)
Personal:syn Zopyroi toi Zopyrou (σὺν Ζωπύρω[ι] τῶι Ζωπύρου, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 1)
The term thiasos both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2772.
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 460; SEG 57, 777; Tsouli 2013: no. 611c with ph.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 23.
Online Resources PHI: EF 460

Harland, AGRW 11717
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone (cippus of amygdalopetra), of the type called Travertin.
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (here the plural ὅροι, line 1, indicates that perhaps many were originally set up) is unclear. In similar inscriptions from Kos, e.g. CAPI no. 1826, the reference is to burial plots, thekaia for the group.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Zopyros son of Zopyros (lines 2-3)
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
iii. Members thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 1)

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.

M. Segre (2007), Iscrizioni di Cos, Epigrafi funerarie, Rome.

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 50 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.