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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1828: [thi]asos Athana[i]stan ton [s]yn Askle[p]iadei

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [θι]άσος Ἀθανα[ϊ]στᾶν τῶν
[σ]ὺν Ἀσκλη[π]ιάδει (IG XII.4 2816, lines 2-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [thi]asos Athana[i]stan ton [s]yn Askle[p]iadei

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 (?) - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos ([θι]άσου, line 2)
Personal:syn Asklepiadei ([σ]ὺν Ἀσκλη[π]ιάδει, lines 4-5)
Theophoric:Athana[i]stai (Ἀθανα[ϊ]-
στᾶν, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos ([θι]άσου, line 2).
Note The term both refers to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2816.
Note Paton-Hicks 158; SGDI III,1 3678.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 11.

For the date, see Sherwin-White 1978: 360 n. 585.
Online Resources PHI: Paton-Hicks 158

Harland AGRW no. 4517
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone of a burial plot; Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone, perhaps a type of cippus.
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of the city of Kos (area part of the necropolis).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκαίων, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Asklepiades (cf. lines 4-5).
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Athena.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography W.R. Paton, E.L. Hicks (1891), The Inscriptions of Cos, Oxford.

S. Sherwin-White (1978), Ancient Cos, Göttingen.

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 50 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1827, for other Athenaistai), we can be confident that it constituted a private thiasos.