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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1847: thiasos Agathodaimonistan ton syn Dorotheoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶν τῶν σὺν Δωροθέῳ (IG XII.4 2780, lines 3-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Agathodaimonistan ton syn Dorotheoi

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 3)
Personal:syn Dorotheoi (σὺν Δωροθέῳ, lines 5-6)
Theophoric:Agathodaimonistai (Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶν, lines 3-5)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 3)
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2780.
Note Bosnakis AD 49/50 A (1994/95) 59, n. 167; Bosnakis, Epigraphes 277; SEG 58.880; Tsouli 2013: no. 616.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 30.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 277
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: rectangular block of white marble, broken below.
ii. Source(s) provenance Necropolis in the Marmaroto neighbourhood.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅροι, line 1, perhaps indicating that this was only one of many markers) is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκαίων, line 2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Dorotheos (line 6).
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Agathos Daimon or Agathoi Daimones.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography D. Bosnakis (2008), Anekdotes epigraphes tes Ko, Epitymvia mnemeia kai horoi, Athens.

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

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

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association and its context. 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.