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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1646: [ho thia]sos Theodotou tou Antipatr[o]u

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Western Asia Minor
ii. Region Caria
iii. Site Kaunos

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) [ὁ θιά]σος Θεοδότου τοῦ Ἀντι̣πάτρ[ο]υ (I. Kaunos 39, lines 27-28)
ii. Full name (transliterated) [ho thia]sos Theodotou tou Antipatr[o]u

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 250 (?) - 50 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:θιάσος, thiasos
The term is probably being used in a cultic sense in the context of this document, see CAP Inv. 836.
Personal:Θεοδότος τοῦ Ἀντι̣πάτρ[ο]υ
See below VII.1.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) I. Kaunos 39 (ca. 250-50 BC?)
Note Cf. also Bean 1953: 23 no. 6;
SEG 12, 473.
Online Resources PHI: I. Kaunos 39
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Bipartite and columniated list of contributors and contributions.
Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Lower part of a marble stele with moulding.
ii. Source(s) provenance Sultaniye.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Θεοδότος τοῦ Ἀντι̣πάτρ[ο]υ, THeodotos tou Antipatr[o]u
Following immediately after the name of the group, this individual appears to be the founder and/or leader of the thiasos.
Gender Male
ii. Leadership See above.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

i. Treasury/Funds The inscription is apparently a bipartite list of contributors to an association, a thiasos whose precise vocation is unknown, see CAP Inv. 836 for further discussion. Nothing is known about the finances of the thiasos of Theodotos the son of Antipatros, except that contributions to it were also promised.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

i. Number Names listed under the second rubric of the inscription (lines 27ff.) may be interpreted as members of the thiasos; see also below IX.5. If this assumption is correct, we would have 7 adult individuals (and perhaps one son) forming a partial membership list of this association.
ii. Gender Men
iv. Status Most of the contributors are members of Kaunian tribes and demes, therefore citizens. From their ethnic identifications, the individuals come from a wide range of different localities within the wider Kaunian polity, see Marek 2006: 84 for further discussion.
v. Relations It is probable that some of the members of the thiasos are related to Theodotos the son of Antipatros. Ἀγρεοφῶν Ἀντιπάτρου (line 29) and another son of Antipatros (line 35) are perhaps the brothers of the founder/leader; both names uniquely occur without ethnics.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Bean, G.E. (1953), 'Notes and Inscriptions from Caunus', JHS 73: 10-35.
Marek, C. (2006), Die Inschriften von Kaunos. Vestigia 55. Munich.
Robert, J. and L. (1954), 'Bulletin épigraphique', REG: no. 229.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Though only obliquely mentioned in the inscription for the purposes of a comparison, the private character of the association is difficult to doubt.