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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1831: [Ag]athodaimo[nias]tai Apol[l]oniou tou Nikiou

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [Ἀγ]αθοδαιμο[νιασ]τᾶν Ἀπολ[λ]ωνίου τοῦ Νικίου (IG XII.4 2802, lines 2-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [Ag]athodaimo[nias]tai Apol[l]oniou tou Nikiou

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 (?) - 100 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:Apollonios tou Nikiou (Ἀπολ[λ]ωνίου τοῦ Νικίου, lines 3-5).
Theophoric:[Ag]athodaimo[nias]tai ([Ἀγ]αθοδαιμο[νιασ]τᾶν, lines 2-3)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2802.
Note Maiuri, NSER 494.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 14.
Online Resources PHI: NSER 494
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 of amygdalopetra / Travertin, broken above.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found built into a house in the area known as Kainouria Porta (= Jeni Kapu).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone ([ὅρος], line 1) is to burial plots, thekaia ([θη]καίων, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Apollonios son of Nikios (lines 3-5)
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 Agathos Daimon or Agathoi Daimones (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.

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.