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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1896: thiasos Posidanistan ton syn Herakleiden

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσος Ποσιδανιστᾶν τῶν σὺν ⟦Ἡ⟧ρακλείδην (IG XII.4 2824, lines 1-4)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Posidanistan ton syn Herakleiden

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 (?) - 200 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 1)
Personal:syn Herakleiden (σὺν ⟦Ἡ⟧ρακλείδην, lines 3-4)
Theophoric:Posidanistai (Ποσιδανιστᾶν, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 1)
Note The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2824.
Note Bosnakis, Epigraphes 287; SEG 58.890; Tsouli 2013: no. 662.

Cf. Maillot 2013: no. 38.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 288
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone, horos (cf. ὅρος, line 1). Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Stele of white marble, broken at the bottom.
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of city of Kos (part of the area of the necropolis).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1), on the analogy of similar texts from Kos and on the basis of the findspot, may be presumed to be to private burial plots for the group (thekaia).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Herakleides (Ἡρακλείδην, line 4)
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 Poseidon.

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