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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1944: thiasos Agathodaimonistan twn syn K[- -]N[- -]ratol[a]oi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶν τῶν σὺν Κ[- -]Ν[- - ]ρατολάῳ (IG XII.4 2804, lines 2-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Agathodaimonistan twn syn K[- -]N[- -]ratol[a]oi

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Personal:syn K... ratolaoi (σὺν Κ[- -]Ν[- - ]ρατολάῳ, lines 4-6)

The name is plausibly restored as a suggestion in IG as Κ[οσσει]ν[ίῳ Στ]ρατολάῳ.
Theophoric:Agathodaimonistai (Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶν, line 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Note The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2804
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) Plaque of amygdalopetra / Travertin.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in a house near the small church of St. Anthony, in the city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone ([ὅρ]ος, line 1) is to burial plots, thekaia ([θηκαίων], line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) The name of the founder or the leader is presumably mentioned as part of the name of the association in lines 4-6. It is possible that this is to be restored as Kosseinios Stratolaos, see above IV.ii.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Agathos Daimon or Agathoi Daimones (lines 2-3)

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.