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Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. 362: thiasos [E]tionidon

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Attica with Salamis
ii. Region Attica
iii. Site Piraeus

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θίασος [Ἐ]τιονιδῶν (IG I3 1016, l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos [E]tionidon

III. DATE

i. Date(s) f. v (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Geographical:Etionidai: Etioneia
iii. Descriptive terms θίασος, thiasos
Note thiasos: IG I3 1016, l. 2

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG I3 1016 (first half V BC ?)
Note Ed. pr.: Polemon 1 (1929): 107, no. 2, SEG 10: 330
Online Resources IG I3 1016
SEG 10: 330
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek dedication (?)
i.c. Physical format(s) Rectangular base measuring 0.27x1.06x0.41m.
ii. Source(s) provenance It was found in a house in the district of Kaminia, between Piraeus and Moschato.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship Given the possible dedication to Heracles, worship by the group may be supposed.
Deities worshipped Herakles (?)

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The inscription contains a three-bar sigma.
iii. Bibliography Arnaoutoglou, I. (2003), Thusias heneka kai sunousias. Private religious associations in Hellenistic Athens. Athens: 64.
Ferguson, W. (1944), ‘The Attic orgeones’, HThR 37: 61-140.
Guarducci, M. (1935), ‘Orgeoni e tiasoti’, RFIC 14: 332-40.
Ismard, P. (2010), La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations VIe – Ier siècle av. J.-C. Paris: 55, 235.
Lambert, S. (1993), The phratries of Attica. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Lambert, S. (1999), ‘IG II2 2345, thiasoi of Herakles and the Salaminioi again’, ZPE 125: 93-130, esp. 125-8.
Parker, R. (1996), Athenian religion: A history. Oxford.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note It is uncertain whether the group was a private one or it was associated with any public subdivision. The ending in -idai suggests a genos-like group for Guarducci 1935, who further argued that the thiasos was a section of a phratry. Ferguson 1944: 133-4 objected on the ground that if this thiasos was part of a phratry it could not have been a genos. He further suggests that the group was one of individuals living in Etioneia grouped together to venerate Herakles. See also Lambert 1993: 88 who considers it as an Heraklean thiasos associated with a phratry.