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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1946: Asklapiastai oi syn Epaphrodeitoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Ἀσκλαπιαστᾶν τῶν σὺν Ἐπαφροδείτῳ (IG XII.4 2806)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Asklapiastai oi syn Epaphrodeitoi

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:syn Epaphrodeitoi (σὺν Ἐπαφροδείτῳ, line 4-6)
Theophoric:Asklapiastan (Ἀσκλαπιαστᾶν, lines 2-3)

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2806.
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone of a burial plot.
i.c. Physical format(s) Cippus of white marble.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found built into a wall of a field, then in a house of the neighbourhood called Platani (general 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) is to burial plots, thekaia (θηκαίων, lines 1-2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Epaphrodeitos, lines 4-6.
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 Asklepios.

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.