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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1830: Athanaistai ton syn Diogenei

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἀθαναϊστᾶν τῶν σὺν Διογένει (IG XII.4 2815, lines 2-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Athanaistai ton syn Diogenei

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 50 (?) - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:syn Diogenei (σὺν Διογένει, lines 3-5).
Theophoric:Athanaistai (Ἀθαναϊστᾶν, lines 2-3)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2815.
Note Maiuri, NSER 490; Segre, I. Cos EF 208; Tsouli 2013: no. 656c with ph.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 13.
Online Resources PHI: EF 208

Cf. also: PHI: NSER 490

Harland, AGRW 11662
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 (cippus), with base meant to be inserted into the ground or a socket.
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of 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 (ὅρος) is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκαίων line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Diogenes (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 (lines 2-3).

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.