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Author: Sophia Zoumbaki

CAPInv. 558: hoi peri Hymnon thiasitai (l. thiasotai)

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Peloponnese with Adjacent Islands
ii. Region Aigina
iii. Site Aigina

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) οἱ̣ [π]ερὶ Ὕμνον θιασῖται (l. θιασῶται, IG IV2.2, 968, ll. 9-10)
ii. Full name (transliterated) hoi peri Hymnon thiasitai (l. thiasotai)

III. DATE

i. Date(s) ii (?) BC

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Personal:peri Hymnon: The name of the thiasos is based on the personal name of its leader, Hymnos.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) IG IV 43 (inc.)
IG IV2.2 968 (ii BC)
Online Resources IG IV 43
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Greek funerary inscription for Demonax, son of Pyrros.
i.c. Physical format(s) A stele of white insular marble broken into two pieces, crowned with a pediment and decorated with a relief depicting a standing male figure between a herm and a servant; beneath the relief there are three engraved wreaths surrounding inscriptions: a. ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος, he boule kai ho demos, b οἱ πε̣ρ̣ὶ̣ – –κλῆα θι̣ασῖται, hoi peri ...-klea thiasitai, c. οἱ̣ [π]ερὶ Ὕμνον θιασῖται, hoi [p]eri Hymnon thiasitai.
ii. Source(s) provenance Aigina, found in a private house.

VII. ORGANIZATION

ii. Leadership On the basis of the name of the gourd, Hymnos appears as the leader of the thiasos.

X. ACTIVITIES

iv. Honours/Other activities Hoi peri Hymnon thiasiatai appear as a collectivity on the gravestone of Demonax, son of Pyrros, in the sense of a post-mortal honour of the deceased.

XI. INTERACTION

i. Local interaction The thiasotai appear on the gravestone of Demonax, son of Pyrros, side by side with the boule and the demos.

XII. NOTES

i. Comments The reading of the inscriptions in IG IV 43, οἱ [ἐκ] γυμ[ν]ασίο[υ] θιασ[ῶ]τ̣αι (hoi [ek] gym[n]asio[u] thias[o]tai), is different from that in the recent edition IG IV2.2 968 which is adopted here.
The other group in the inscription is CAPInv. 557.
ii. Poland concordance Poland B 147
iii. Bibliography Poland, F. (1909), Geschichte des griechischen Vereinswesens. Leipzig.
Ziebarth, E. (1896), Das griechische Vereinswesen. Leipzig: 92.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note Poland 1909: 26, 104 argues that these thiasoi are rather to be regarded as public subdivisions, as they appear side by side with the boule and the demos. However, as thiasoi of the gymnasion are often attested on Aiginetan gravestones and their nature is debated in related research, there is no certainty about the public or private cultic character of the peri Hymnon thiasitai.