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Last Updated on 03 Jul 2019

Author: Annelies Cazemier

CAPInv. 146: thiasos ton Leukogeiton

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Lesbos
iii. Site Mytilene region: area of Plomari

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θίασος τῶν Λευκογείτων (IG XII.2 481, l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos ton Leukogeiton

III. DATE

i. Date(s) Imp.

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:Leukogeitoi -- Perhaps to be interpreted as whitewashers?
Theophoric:Leukotheai (Nereids) ? -- It has been suggested by Shields (1917: 43) that the term Leukogeitoi might relate to the Nereids, known on Lesbos as Leukotheai.
Topographical:Leukogeitoi -- Perhaps inhabitants of a neighbourhood, as suggested by Harland online (see AGRW ID# 12288).
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: IG XII.2 481, l. 2

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.2 481 (Imp.: see below: 'Comments')
Note See also:
AGRW
Online Resources IG XII.2 481
AGRW ID# 12288
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedication to a thiasos (thank-offering).
ii. Source(s) provenance Found on the seashore near Plomari.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note The dedicant, if himself a member of the thiasos, is male.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Based on letter forms, IG XII.2 481 must date to the (later) Imperial period (cf. Ziebarth 1900: 509-10, no. 2), perhaps iii AD (Shields 1917: 43, n. 41).

The case of θιάσω, thiaso, in IG XII.2 481, l. 2 is dative and not genitive: IG XII Suppl. p. 29.
ii. Poland concordance Poland B *155
iii. Bibliography Shields, E.L. (1917), The cults of Lesbos (Dissertation. Johns Hopkins University).
Ziebarth, E. (1900), ‘Zu den griechischen Vereinsinschriften’, RhM 55: 501-19.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The use of the term thiasos in combination with a name in the genitive plural makes it very likely that this is a private association.