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Last Updated on 21 Feb 2017

Author: Ilias Arnaoutoglou

CAPInv. 252: thi[asotai]

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Attica with Salamis
ii. Region Attica
iii. Site Athens

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) θι[ασῶται] (Agora 16 231, l. 2)
ii. Full name (transliterated) thi[asotai]

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 215 (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Cultic:thi[asotai]

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Agora 16 231 (215 BC)
Note Ed. pr.: Hesperia 15 (1946): 156, no. 13
See also: Hesperia 30 (1961): 228, no 27 (SEG 21: 533)
Online Resources Agora 16 231
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Part of a Greek honorific decree?
i.c. Physical format(s) Fragment of a marble stele broken on all sides, measuring 0.21x0.185m.
ii. Source(s) provenance Found built in a wall of a modern house north of the Areopagos, now in Agora I 5691.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials Treasurer (ταμίας, tamias, l. 3)

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Note Εὐάγγελος Σουνιεύς, Athenian Onomasticon s.v. (22).
iii. Age Adults
iv. Status Citizen. For a possible identification see Bayliss 2002: 87-8.

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Bayliss, A. (2002), ‘New names on Athenian ephebic inscription’, ZPE 140: 85-8.
Parker, R. (1996), Athenian religion. A history. Oxford.
Tracy, S. (1990), Attic letter-cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. Berkeley: 48.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Probable
Note Despite the reasonable reservations in Parker 1993: 338, n. 31, the restoration remains the likeliest. Therefore, its attribution to private associations is quite likely.