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Author: Sofia Kravaritou

CAPInv. 1227: [to koinon ton A]zoriaston

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Central Greece
ii. Region Thessaly. Pelasgiotis
iii. Site City of Larisa.

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [τὸ κοινὸν τῶν Ἀ]ζωριαστῶν (RICIS 102/0501, l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [to koinon ton A]zoriaston

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

i. Name in other forms The name of the group in RICIS 102/0501, l. 2 has also been reconstructed as:

[τὸ κοινὸν? τῶν] ωριαστῶν, [to koinon? ton] oriaston - 'adepts of Horus' (Salac 1915: 18-19)

[τὸ κοινὸν? τῶ]ν Ζωριαστῶν, [to koinon? to]n Zoriaston - with unknown meaning (IG IX.2 589)

[τὸ κοινὸν? τῶν Συν]ωριαστῶν, [to koinon? ton Syn]oriaston - 'charioteers' (Dunand 1973: 51, n. 4)
ii. Name elements
Topographical:The term Azoriastai indicates a group of citizens originating from the city of Azoros in Perrhaibia (RICIS 123; Lucas 1997: 38; Darmezin and Tziafalias 2007: 28).
iii. Descriptive terms [κοινόν], [koinon]
Note (koinon): RICIS 112/0501, l. 2 (reconstructed term)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) RICIS 112/0501 (ii BC)
Note See also:
IG IX.2 589
Lucas 1997: 38
Heinz 1998: 438, cat. no A 130
SEG 47: 669
Online Resources IG IX.2 589
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script This is the honorific inscription accompanying a votive statue of an unknown man, son of Aristokles, founder and benefactor of the group in question, dedicated by the group to Horus, Anubis and -after reconstruction- to Sarapis and Isis.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stone base of a statue. Tenons for fixing the feet of a statue on the upper part (RICIS 122; Heinz 1998: 438, cat. no A 130; Decourt and Tziafalias 2007: 357, fig. 14).
ii. Source(s) provenance Ancient city of Larisa. Now in the Museum of Larisa, Inv. no 84/86.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

i. Archaeological remains Ancient Larisa has delivered some more inscriptions dedicated to the Isiac divinities (Decourt and Tziafalias 2007).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Following the reconstruction of the term ktistes (l. 4), the inscription delivers the name of the founder of the group (l. 3): only the patronymic is readable (Aristokleous).
Gender Male

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income The inscription names the son of Aristokles as benefactor, indicating in every probability donations of money on his behalf.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship The group dedicates the statue of its founder and benefactor to the Gods.
Deities worshipped Isiac deities (Sarapis, Isis, Horus, Anubis).
iv. Honours/Other activities The group dedicates an honorific statue of its founder and benefactor.

XI. INTERACTION

ii. Interaction abroad The group originating from the Perrhaibian city of Azoros dedicated a statue of its founder to the Isiac divinities in the city of Larisa, in Pelasgiotis.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Darmezin, L., and Tziafalias, A. (2007), ‘The Twelve Tribes of Atrax: a Lexical Study’, in E. Matthews (ed.), Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics, Oxford: 21-8.
Decourt, J.-Cl., and Tziafalais, A. (2007), ‘Cultes et divinités isiaques en Thessalie’, in L. Bricault et al. (eds.), Nile into Tiber. Egypt in the Roman World, Leiden: 329-63.
Dunand, Fr. (1973), Le culte d'Isis dans le bassin oriental de la Méditerranée. Leiden.
Heinz, M. (1998), Thessalische Votivstelen, PhD. Bochum.
Lucas, G. (1997), Les cités antiques de la haute vallée du Titarèse. Lyon.
Mili, M. (2015). Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly. Oxford: 349-50.
Salac, A. (1915), Isis, Sérapis et les sunnaoi theoi, PhD.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The use of a collective name, the presence of a benefactor and the terms koinon and ktistes -if properly reconstructed- all indicate a group with a corporate character. However, this is only a possibility, since we could equally have a public institution of the city of Azoros.