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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1850: thiasitai [t]on syn Metrodoroi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασιτῶ[ν τ]ῶν σὺν Μητροδώρωι (IG XII.4 2774 I, lines 2-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasitai [t]on syn Metrodoroi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 200 - 100 BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasitai (θιασιτῶ[ν], line 2)
Personal:syn Metrodoroi (σὺν Μητροδώρωι, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasitai (θιασιτῶ[ν], line 2)
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2774 I.
Note Bosnakis, Epigraphes 280-I; Tsouli 2013: no. 486.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 33.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 280,I
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: rectangular marble block. The boundary stone was inscribed twice, cf. CAPI no. 1851 for the other, later and apparently unrelated inscription. It would seem that ownership of both the boundary and the burial ground had changed by the 1st c. BC.
ii. Source(s) provenance Area of the Asklepieion.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος) is to a burial plot for the group, a thekaion ([θηκ]αίου, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Metrodoros, line 3.
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male
iii. Members thiasitai (θιασιτῶ[ν], line 2)

X. ACTIVITIES

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

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography D. Bosnakis (2008), Anekdotes epigraphes tes Ko, Epitymvia mnemeia kai horoi, Athens.

S. Maillot (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.

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 40 in number, cf. e.g. CAPI no. 1826), we can be confident that it constituted a private association.