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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1854: thiasos [Hom]onoi{si}s[ta]n t[o]n syn K[a]llistioi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) ⟦θιάσου [Ὁμ]ονοϊσισ[τᾶ]ν τ[ῶ]ν σὺν̣ Κ̣[α]λλιστίωι⟧ (IG XII.4 2812 II, lines 2-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos [Hom]onoi{si}s[ta]n t[o]n syn K[a]llistioi

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (⟦θιάσου⟧, line 2)
Personal:syn Kallistioi (⟦σὺν̣ Κ̣[α]λλιστίωι⟧, lines 4-5)
Theophoric:thiasos Homonoistan (⟦θιάσου [Ὁμ]ονοϊσισ[τᾶ]ν⟧, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (⟦θιάσου⟧, line 2).
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2812 II, for an earlier but uncertainly dated funerary text on the same stone see 2812 I.
Note Bosnakis, Epigraphes 283-II; SEG 55.937 and 58.886; Tsouli 2013: no. 38.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 37.

For the earlier text inscribed on the stone (1st c. BC or AD?), cf. Bosnakis, Epigraphes 283-I and PHI: Epigraphes 283,I.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 283,II
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) Pedimental stele of white marble, inverted for second use. The pediment will have formed the base of the boundary stone during this reuse.
The first/primary use was as a funerary inscription (second erased line, still legible as: ⟦χαῖρε⟧). The present text is inscribed wholly in a rasura, except for line 1.
ii. Source(s) provenance Uncertain origin in/near the city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1) is to private burial plots for the group: thekaia (<θ>ηκαίων, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Kallistios, lines 4-5.
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

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

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.