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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1826: thiasos Aphrodisiastan ton syn Euthychoi

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θίασος Ἀφροδισιαστᾶν τῶν σὺν Εὐτύχωι (IG XII.4 2785, ll. 2-5; IG XII.4 2786)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Aphrodisiastan ton syn Euthychoi

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 BC - 100 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Aphrodisiastan (Ἀφροδισιαστᾶν, lines 3-4)
The latter term might be treated as theophoric, but it is perhaps properly to be treated as heortephoric: the group celebrated Aphrodisia in honour of Aphrodite.
Personal:syn Eutychoi, σὺν Εὐτύχωι (lines 4-5)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 2).
The term both refers to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2785 (1) and 2786 (2).
Note Stone 1: Herzog, KFF 40; SGDI III,1 3680.
Stone 2: Paton-Hicks 155.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 9.
Online Resources PHI: Paton-Hicks 155

Cf. also: PHI KFF 40

Harland AGRW no. 1681
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Two boundary stones of the same burial plot; Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) 1 - Plaque of amygdalopetra / Travertin.
2 - Boundary stone of a standard type.
ii. Source(s) provenance Both from Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of the city of Kos, i.e. the necropolis.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stones (ὅρος) is to a burial plot, thekaia (θηκαῖος, lines 1-2).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Eutychos (lines 4-5).
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 at IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Aphrodite.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography R. Herzog (1899), Koische Forschungen und Funde, Leipzig.

W.R. Paton, E.L. Hicks (1891), The Inscriptions of Cos, Oxford.

S. Maillot (2013), 'Les associations à Cos', in P. Hamon and P. Fröhlich (eds.), Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques, Geneva: 199-226.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, such as its context. But both from its name and on the basis of 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. 1827), we can be confident it constituted a private thiasos.