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I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i.	Full name (original language)	θιάσου Τύχης Ἀφροδίτης τῶν σὺν Τερτίᾳ Αὐδίᾳ Δωροθέᾳ (IG XII.4 2798, lines 1-5)
ii.	Full name (transliterated)	thiasos Tyches Aphrodites ton syn Tertiai Audiai Dorotheai

III. DATE

i.

Date(s)

100 (?) BC - 100 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii.

Name elements

Cultic:	thiasos (θιάσου, line 1)
Personal:	Tertia Audia Dorothea (σὺν Τερτίᾳ Αὐδίᾳ Δωροθέᾳ, lines 3-5)
Theophoric:	Tyche Aphrodite (Τύχης Ἀφροδίτης)

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 2798 and 2799.
	Note	Copy 1: Maiuri, NSER 495; Segre, I. Cos EF 429; Tsouli 2013: no. 641c with ph. Copy: previously unpublished. Cf. also: Maillot 2013: no. 45.
	Online Resources	PHI: I. Cos EF 429 Harland, AGRW ₁₂₀₀₄
i.a.	Source type(s)	Epigraphic source(s)
i.b.	Document(s) typology & language/script	Boundary stones, horos (cf. ὅρος, line 1). Greek.
i.c.	Physical format(s)	Copy 1: Stele of rose-colored stone. Copy 2: Cippus of amygdalopetra / Travertin.
ii.	Source(s) provenance	Copy 1: area of the Asklepieion of Kos. Copy 2: in a wall on the road to the village of Platani (the general area of the necropolis).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii.

References to buildings/objects

On the analogy of other texts from Kos, the point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line) may be presumed to be private burial plots for the group (thekaia). It is also not impossible that the boundary stone referred to a shrine of Aphrodite.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i.	Founder(s)	Tertia Audia Dorothea (σὺν Τερτίᾳ Αὐδίᾳ Δωροθέᾳ, lines 3-5) This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader. The same woman is known from a first century BC funerary marker on Kos (IG XII.4 2952 / I. Cos EF 738, cf. PHI: EF 738). If this chronology is correct, it would thus be safe to presume that Tertia was the founder of the group, which continued after her death.
	Gender	Female
ii.	Leadership	See also above.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii.	Worship	See above IV.ii.
	Deities worshipped	Tyche Aphrodite. The first theonym has caused some problems and was previously interpreted as an epithet. Segre read Thyaie and Maiuri Eudie. The latter would have brought the epithet in relation with the family name of the founder, Tertia Audia Dorothea; in the former, Thyaios would be an epithet, attested of Apollo in Hsch. s.v. The correct reading, now assured in the IG edition, makes it clear that Tyche is a deity associated with Aphrodite in this case or perhaps to be treated as Aphrodite's epithet. The association of the two goddesses as a pair is attested. For instance, a ship is known by the name Aphrodite Tyche, in a votive inscription on the island of Prote: SEG 11.1023 and 14.344. Cp. also e.g. TAM II 163 (Daidala), a dedication by a Rhodian epistatas to both goddesses. Isis is also often known by the name Tyche.

XII. NOTES