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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1834: Apollonias[tai] ton syn Sostr[atoi]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἀπολλωνιασ[τᾶν] τῶν σὺν Σωστρ[άτωι] (IG XII.4 2784, lines 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Apollonias[tai] ton syn Sostr[atoi]

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:syn Sostratoi (σὺν Σωστρ[άτωι], line 3)
Theophoric:Apolloniastai (Ἀπολλωνιασ[τᾶν], line 2)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2784.
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 214; SEG 57.780; Tsouli 2013: no. 622c.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 17.
Online Resources PHI: EF 214

Harland, AGRW 11664
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) Cippus of amygdalopetra / Travertin, broken on its upper corners.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found during demolition work in the city of Kos (context lost).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

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

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Sostratos (line 3).
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 Apollo (line 2).

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.

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.