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Author: Stella Skaltsa

CAPInv. 1910: hoi thiaseitai hoi syn Parmenisko

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Aegean Islands
ii. Region Kos
iii. Site Kephala (ancient deme of Isthmos)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασεῖται οἱ σὺν Παρμενίσκῳ (IG XII.4 3281)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi thiaseitai hoi syn Parmenisko

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii - i BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiaseitai
Personal:hoi syn Parmeniskoi

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 3281 (ii-i BC)
Note PH 407
See Peek 1969: 13 for a corrected reading of line 3: Ἀγαθόστρα<τ>ον instead of Ἀγαθοστράτων.

Maillot 2013: no. 48 (note, however, that Maillot does not take into account Peek's new reading)
Online Resources PH 407
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary or honorary inscription in Greek of the thiaseitai hoi syn Parmenisko for Agathostratos son of Minion Trallianos.
i.c. Physical format(s) Marble slab.
H. 22 x W. 32 x Th. 9 cm.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in Palatia, built into the floor of the church of Panagia Palatiani. Seen by Foucart (1875: 322 no. 12). Note that by the time Paton and Hicks published the volume on the Koan inscriptions, the inscription had been moved to Syme. Peek (1969: 13) also saw the inscription in Syme.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) hoi syn Parmenisko: Parmeniskos was either the founder or the leader of the association (hoi syn Parmeniskoi).
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above VII.i.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

iv. Status The honorand comes from Tralleis: Agathostratos son of Minion Trallianos (ll. 3-5).

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities The thiasitai hoi syn Parmeniskoi put up an inscription for Agathostratos son of Minion Trallianos.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments Another group of thiasitai was active in the same region in Kos (ancient deme of Isthmos): see CAP Inv.1909.
iii. Bibliography Maillot, M. (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.
Peek, W. (1969), Inschriften von den dorischen Inseln. Berlin.
Rayet, O. (1875), 'Inscriptions de l'île de Kos', Association pour l'encouragement des études grecques en France.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note The cultic element in the name (thiasitai) and the personal element (syn Parmeniskoi) point towards a private association.