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Author: Jan-Mathieu Carbon

CAPInv. 1945: thiasos Agathodaimonistan

I. LOCATION

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

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θιάσο[υ] Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶν (IG XII.4 2805, lines 1-3)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thiasos Agathodaimonistan

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 (?) - 100 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thiasos (θιάσο[υ], line 1)
Theophoric:Agathodaimonistai (Ἀγαθοδαιμονιστᾶν, lines 2-3)
iii. Descriptive terms thiasos (θιάσο[υ], line 1)
Note The term both refers specifically to a cultic group and, more widely, to a collectivity.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG XII.4 2805
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 of a burial plot: rough plaque of amygdalopetra / Travertin.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in the sanctuary of Asklepios (the area of the Asklepieion).

VI. BUILT AND VISUAL SPACE

ii. References to buildings/objects The point of reference of the boundary stone (ὅρος, line 1) is unclear, but on the analogy of similar examples from Kos, may have been to burial plots, thekaia.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship See above IV.ii.
Deities worshipped Agathos Daimon or Agathoi Daimones (lines 2-3)

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.