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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1845: thiasitai ton syn ⟦Stratonikoi⟧

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιασιτᾶν τῶν σὺν ⟦Στρατονίκωι⟧ (IG XII.4 274, lines 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasitai ton syn ⟦Stratonikoi⟧

III. DATE

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

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 1)
Personal:syn ⟦Stratonikoi⟧ (σὺν ⟦Στρατονίκωι⟧, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 1)
Note The term thiasos both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2790.
Note Bosnakis, Epigraphes 274, with ph.; SEG 58.877; Tsouli 2013: no. 490.
Cf. also Maillot 2013: no. 28.
Online Resources PHI: Epigraphes 274
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Boundary stone.
Greek.
i.c. Physical format(s) Boundary stone: rectangular block made of amygdalopetra / Travertin.
ii. Source(s) provenance Platani-Kermetes neighbourhood, south-west of city of Kos.

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The physical point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅροι, line 1, which may indicate that more than one of these was erected) is unclear. Many other boundary stones from Kos, CAPI no. 1826, delimit to burial plots, thekaia, belonging to the group.

VII. ORGANIZATION

i. Founder(s) See below for an original name that was later erased.
ii. Leadership Stratonikos (line 3)
Interestingly, this name has been inscribed in a rasura, in a different and later hand from the 1st c. AD. Stratonikos was thus the new leader or re-founder of the group, replacing an earlier inscribed leader or founder (now lost).
iii. Members thiasitai (θιασιτᾶν, line 1)

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Unclear.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography D. Bosnakis (2008), Anekdotes epigraphes tes Ko, Epitymvia mnemeia kai horoi, Athens.

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

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

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Little is known about this association, its context, or its possible forms of worship. 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.