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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1842: thia[sos - - -]

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιά̣[σου - - -] (IG XII.4 2789, line 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thia[sos - - -]

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιά̣[σου - - -], line 2)
Personal:In lines 5-6, the editors of IG think of the possibility of restoring [τῶν σὺν] Νι|κ[ο--]ῳ. This would provides us with a name element.
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιά̣[σου - - -], line 2)
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.
Note Other elements of the name were no doubt present in the remaining fragmentary lines of the inscription--lines 3-6, damaged during reuse--now difficult to decipher.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2789.
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 464; Tsouli 2013: no. 652c with ph.
Cf. Maillot 2013: no. 25.
Online Resources PHI: EF 464
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone. Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Slab of white marble--probably originally used as a boundary stone--, reused as a base for a statue.
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, line 1) is unclear. Elsewhere on Kos (cp. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), such boundaries refer to burial plots, thekaia, belonging to groups.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) See above IV.ii. for the possible restoration of such an individual.
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

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

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, its context or its forms of worship. 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 40 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.