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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 2129: U-AEI-027

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Association with unknown name U-AEI-027

III. DATE

i. Date(s) i (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

i. Name in other forms thiasitas (θιασίτας, IG XII.4 2561)
The term implies a thiasos or a group of thiasitai.
iii. Descriptive terms thiasitas (θιασίτας)
Note The implied term thiasos refers both specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2561 (1st c. AD)
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 25, with pl. 4.
Online Resources PHI: I. Cos EF 25
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary stele. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Broken marble stele.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in debris in the city of Kos (likely context of reuse from the nearby necropolis).

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members thiasitai (θιασῖται)
The thiasos is only known through one of its apparent members. The stele reads in full [Π]υλάδης | θ̣ιασίτας, apparently attesting to a member of a θίασος called Pylades (Πυλάδης).

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number Only one male member of the anonymous thiasos is known from this inscription.
ii. Gender Men

XII. NOTES

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

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The thiasos remains anonymous in the inscription and is only known through the funerary inscription of one of its apparent members. It is possible that this testifies to the burial of a member of the thiasos in private associational burial grounds, but that is not certain and practically nothing is known about the character of the group concerned.