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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1841: thiasos Aphrodeisistan ton syn Menogenei

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου Ἀφροδεισιστᾶν τῶν σὺν Μηνογένε̣ι (IG XII.4 2817, lines 1-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Aphrodeisistan ton syn Menogenei

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, lines 1-2)
Personal:syn Menogenei (σὺν Μηνογένε̣ι, lines 5-7)
Theophoric:Aphrodeisistan (Ἀφροδεισιστᾶν, lines 2-4)
This is the proper name for agents or worshippers of Aphrodite (ct. Aphrodisiastai).
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, lines 1-2)
Note The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2817.
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 461; SEG. 57.789.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 24.
Online Resources PHI: EF 461

Harland, AGRW 11719
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone: cippus of amygdalopetra / Travertin, with a foot for insertion into the ground.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found next to the Asklepieion.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1) is unclear; in other similar boundary stones from Kos (cp. e.g. CAPI no. 1826) the reference is explicitly to burial plots, thekaia, belonging to the group.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Menogenes (lines 5-7)
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 Aphrodite.

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.

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.