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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1829: thiasos Haliastan ton syn Asklepiade[i]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσος Ἁλιασ̣τᾶν τῶν σὺν Ἀσκληπιάδῃ (IG XII.4 2794, lines 2-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Haliastan ton syn Asklepiade[i]

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Personal:syn Asklepiadei (σὺν Ἀσκληπιάδῃ, lines 3-4)
Theophoric:Haliastai (Ἁλιασ̣τᾶν, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
The term both refers to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2794
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 383 + 197; Maiuri, NSER 489; Tsouli 2013: no. 633c with hp.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 12.
Online Resources PHI: EF 383/197

Cf. also: PHI: Maiuri, NSER 489

Harland, AGRW 11273
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) Two joining fragments of a white marble plaque, made to be inserted into the ground (i.e. as a boundary stone).
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of city of Kos (the area 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 (θηκαίω[ν], line 2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Asklepiades (line 4).
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male

X. ACTIVITIES

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

XII. NOTES

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

A. Maiuri (1925), Nuova silloge epigrafica di Rodi e Cos, Florence.

M. Segre (2007), Iscrizioni di Cos, Epigrafi funerarie, Rome.

C. Tsouli, Ταφικὰ και επιτάφια μνημεία της Κω, diss. Athens 2013.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association and its context. But simply on the basis of its name and by 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. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.