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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1825: thiasos [---sta]n ton s[yn Di]onysioi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσ[ος] [— — —στᾶ]ν τῶν σ[ὺν Δι]ονυσίω[ι] (KFF 41, lines 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos [---sta]n ton s[yn Di]onysioi

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos, line 1
[---sta]n, line 2 (very probably)
Personal:s[yn Di]onysioi (σ[ὺν Δι]ονυσίω[ι], line 3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos, line 1.
The term both refers to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Herzog, KFF 41.
Note Reprinted in IG XII.4 2778.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 8.
Online Resources PHI: KFF 41
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone of burial plot; Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone in the form of a limestone plaque.
ii. Source(s) provenance Neighbourhoud of Platani-Kermetes, the necropolis of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone is to a burial plot, thekaion (cf. [θηκαί]ου line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Dionysos ([Δι]ονυσίω[ι], line 3). This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

ii. Realty See above VI.ii for the burial plot of the association.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography R. Herzog (1899), Koische Forschungen und Funde, Leipzig.

S. Maillot (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, whether its context or its chosen form of worship. But simply on the basis of comparison with other highly similar boundary stones of the burial plots of associations near the city of Kos (more than 40 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that this text belonged to a private thiasos.