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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1906: th<i>asos Isiastan ton syn Ktesikleai

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου Ἰσιαστᾶν τῶν σὺν Κτ[ησικ]λέᾳ (IG XII.4 2822, lines 3-7)
ii. Full name (transliterated) th<i>asos Isiastan ton syn Ktesikleai

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, lines 3-4)
Personal:syn Kt[esik]leai (σὺν Κτ[ησικ]λέᾳ, lines 6-7)

Κτησικλέᾳ or Κτησικλέα (accusative) is the suggested restoration in IG.
Theophoric:Isiastan (Ἰσιαστᾶν, lines 4-5)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, lines 3-4)
Note The term refers both specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2822.
Note Maiuri, NSER 493; SIRIS 250; RICIS 204/1008.

Cf. alsoMaillot 2013: no. 55.
Online Resources PHI: NSER 493
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) Boundary stone: cippus of amygdalopetra / Travertin.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found reused in a wall on the road leading from the Platani neighbourhood (an area of the necropolis) to the city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1) is to private burial plots for the group: thekaia (θηκαίων, lines 2-3).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Kt[esik]les (lines 6-7)
Forming a part of the name of the association, this name must have belonged either to its founder or to its leader.
ii. Leadership See above.

X. ACTIVITIES

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

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.

A. Maiuri (1925), Nuova silloge epigrafica di Rodi e Cos, Florence.

L. Vidman (1969), Sylloge Inscriptionum Religionis Isiacae et Sarapiacae (SIRIS), Berlin.

L. Bricault (2005) Recueil des inscriptions concernant les cultes isiaques (RICIS), Paris.

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.