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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1907: thias[os] Dios Sote[ro]s kai Asta[rt]es

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσ[ου] Διὸς Σωτῆ[ρο]ς καὶ Ἀστά[ρτ]ης (IG XII.4 2810, lines 3-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thias[os] Dios Sote[ro]s kai Asta[rt]es

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσ[ου], line 2)
Theophoric:Zeus Soter, Astarte (Διὸς Σωτῆ[ρο]ς καὶ Ἀστά[ρτ]ης, lines 2-5)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσ[ου], line 2)
Note The term refers both specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2810.
Note Maiuri NSER 496; Segre, I. Cos EF 202 (adopting the correction of Wilhelm AM [1926] 10 = 2002: 644).

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 57.
Online Resources PHI: I. Cos EF 202
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone, horos (cf. ὅρος, line 1). Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Fragment of a white marble plaque.
ii. Source(s) provenance Marmaroto neighbourhood, west of the city of Kos (part of the area of the necropolis).

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 (θη[κ]α̣ίων, lines 1-2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership archeranistas (οὗ ἀρχι[ερανι]στὰς, lines 5-6)
The leader of the group would probably have been mentioned by name in the line(s) broken below the extant text.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Zeus Soter.
Astarte: on this Near Eastern goddess and her worship in the Greek world, see Bonnet 1996.

XI. INTERACTION

ii. Interaction abroad See above X.iii.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography C. Bonnet (1996), Astarté. Dossier documentaire et perspectives historiques, Rome.

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.

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

A. Wilhelm, Kleine Schriften, vol. II.3, Vienna 2002.

XIII. EVALUATION

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