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Author: Vincent Gabrielsen

CAPInv. 35: Agathodaimo[niastan koinon]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Rhodes
iii. Site Lindos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἀγαθοδαιμο[νιαστᾶν κοινόν] (I.Lindos II 252, l. 251)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Agathodaimo[niastan koinon]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 115 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Theophoric:Agathos daimon. For the god and his cult on Rhodes, see D. Morelli, I culti in Rodi (Pisa, 1959): 1, 77-79.
iii. Descriptive terms κοινόν, koinon

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I.Lindos II 252, l. 251
Online Resources I.Lindos II 252
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Subscription list in Greek
i.c. Physical format(s) Large stele of Lartian marble, whose lower surface ends in a tenon to be inserted into a base. The inscription is almost completely preserved. It consists of an introductory heading followed by the list of subscribers arranged in three columns.
ii. Source(s) provenance The acropolis of Lindos

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The Timapolis who appears to act in conjunction with the koinon may have been a member of the association. This Timapolis is either one of the two or perhaps four persons with that name (all of the Lindian deme Kamyndioi) in the same document (I.Lindos II 252, ll. 34, 39, 86 and 89; see also Blinkenberg's comments ad loc.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The Agathodaimoniastan koinon appears together a Timapolis (possibly a member) as one of the contributors to a subscription (epidosis) canvased by the Lindian assembly. Their contribution is 10 drachmas. The total sum collected was to be used for paying for the golden wreaths that the Lindians had dedicated to Athana Lindia, Zeus Polieus and Nike. The list of contributors includes individuals (all of them Lindian demesmen) and a number of associations (I.Lindos II 252, ll. 226-27, 250-58), six of which give money together with Timapolis. Two of these associations carry his name: the Ἀθαναιστᾶ[ν] Τιμαπολείων κοινόν, Athanaista[n] Timapoleion koinon: ibid. ll. 226-27) and the Τιμαπολείων κο[ιν]όν, Timapoleion ko[in]on

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The theophoric name Agathodaimoniastai, used together with the word koinon, makes it certain that this is a private association.