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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1843: [thias]os [---]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [θιάσ]ου [---] (IG XII.4 2801, line 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [thias]os [---]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 (?) - 100 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos ([θιάσ]ου [---], line 2)
iii. Descriptive terms [thias]ou [---] ([θιάσ]ου [---], lines 2-3)
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.
Note It is highly probable that further elements of the name are now lost in the lacunae below line 2.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2801
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 466.

Cf. Maillot 2013: no. 26.
Online Resources PHI: EF 466
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone of a burial plot.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone: fragment of a stele of white marble, intact above and to the left only.
ii. Source(s) provenance Unknown.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone ([ὅ]ρος, line 1) is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκ[αίων], 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.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, its context, or possible 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.