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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1852: Aphrodeisiastai ton syn Theudorai

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἀφροδεισιαστᾶν τῶν σὺν Θευδώρᾳ (IG XII.4 2808, lines 3-5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Aphrodeisiastai ton syn Theudorai

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:syn Theudorai (σὺν Θευδώρᾳ, lines 4-5)
Theophoric:Aphrodeisiastai (Ἀφροδεισιαστᾶν, lines 3-4)
The name denotes worshippers of Aphrodite, or perhaps more properly, those who celebrate the goddess' festival and rites, the Aphrodeisia (the name would thus be heortephoric).

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2808.
Note Bosnakis, Epigraphes 281, with ph.; SEG 58.884; Tsouli 2013: no. 646.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 35.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 281
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) Rhomboid fragment of a white marble stele. ⟦θηκαίω⟧ν has been inscribed in a rasura in line 2. There was probably a simple mistake in the writing of the gen. pl. form θηκαίων (e.g. θηκαίον was inscribed instead).
ii. Source(s) provenance Found during a dig in the necropolis, neighbourhood of Marmaroto.

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 (⟦θηκαίω⟧ν, line 2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Theudora, line 5.
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Female
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

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

XII. NOTES

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

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

Tsouli, C. (2013), Ταφικὰ και επιτάφια μνημεία της Κω, (Phd thesis), Athens.

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.