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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1839: thiasos Aphrodisiastan ton syn Aristokratei

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσου Ἀφροδισιαστᾶν τῶν σὺν Ἀριστοκράτει (IG XII.4 2795, lines 2-6)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Aphrodisiastan ton syn Aristokratei

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
Personal:syn Aristokratei (σὺν Ἀριστο-
κράτει, lines 5-6)
Theophoric:Aphrodisiastai (Ἀφροδισιαστᾶν, lines 2-4)
Alternatively, or concomitantly, the name may be concerned with the celebration of rites in honour of Aphrodite, the festival of the Aphrodisia.
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσου, line 2)
The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2795
Note Segre, I. Cos EF 440; SEG 57.786; Tsouli 2013: no. 638c with ph.

Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 22.
Online Resources PHI: EF 440

Harland, AGRW 12006
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) Boundary stone: cippus of white marble, with base made to be inserted into the ground.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found during demolition work in the city of Kos (context lost).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone is to a burial plot, thekaios (ὅ̣ρ̣ο̣ς̣ [θη]κ̣α̣ῖ̣ος, line 1).

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) Aristokrates (lines 5-6)
This individual, mentioned in the name of the association, is either its founder or its leader.
Gender Male

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Aphrodite (lines 2-4)

XII. NOTES

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

M. Segre (2007), Iscrizioni di Cos, Epigrafi funerarie, Rome.

C. Tsouli, Ταφικὰ και επιτάφια μνημεία της Κω, diss. Athens 2013.

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.