ERC MAP - View Source #15250

View Source #15250

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Creation : 2022-12-15 16:33:41 by Sylvain Lebreton
Latest Edition : 2022-12-15 17:56:44 by Sylvain Lebreton

Project

ERC MAP Project

Source Category

Epigraphy

Source Types

Decree, Ritual norm

Languages

Greek

Main Title

None

Author

Material Category

Lithic

Material

Marble

Medium Category

Stele / Cippus

Medium

Stele

Text URL

http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/file/148/

Iconography ?

Image URL

Bibliography

Bibliographic Reference	Main Edition	Source Reference
#1 CGRN		148
#12 SEG		cf. 47, 1277
#855 Cultes et sanctuaires de Cos		p. 77-79, 140-141, 336-337
#2000 Vie religieuse		39
#308 LSCG		154
#1328 I.Kos Heilige Gesetze		8
#4245 Artemis Toxitis		p. 16
#241 IG XII.4		72

Dating
Precision: 2

Post Quem	-250
Ante Quem	-225
Commentary	Ca. 240 BCE. Ca. 240 av. n.è.

Discovery / Original Location
Precision: 2

Real ?	Yes
Political Entity	Kos (Koos) (IACP: 497)
Region	Aegean Islands
Sub-region	Cos
Place	Asklepieion (Kos) View on Pleiades 36.875681, 27.257012
Site
Topographies
Functions	Cult , Health
Commentary	See Interdonato, Asklepieion di Kos (2013) ; Paul, Cultes et sanctuaires de Cos (2013), p. 167-187 ; Bosnakis, To Asklêpieion tês Kô (2014). Cf. Interdonato, Asklepieion di Kos (2013) ; Paul, Cultes et sanctuaires de Cos (2013), p. 167-187 ; Bosnakis, To Asklêpieion tês Kô (2014).

Commentary

Opisthographic stele (faces A-B) found close to the E gate of the lower terrace.
Decree of the city-state (Assembly) providing for the engraving of "sacred and ancestral laws (hierous kai patrious nomous)" relating to purity, in several copies (A, l. 1-20): Asklepieion, sanctuary of Demeter, sanctuary of Artemis... (Testimony #19169), of (Artemis) Lochia (Testimony #19161), Aphrodision, sanctuaries of the demes of Isthmos and Halasarna.
Next are detailed regulations on purity (esp. abstention: hagneiai) for two priestesses of Demeter (A, l. 21-35 and 36-47: see Testimonies #19162 and #19164).
Side B records further regulations on purifications (katharmoi) obviously valid for several cults.
Stèle opisthographe (faces A-B) trouvée près de la porte E de la terrasse inférieure.
Décret de la cité (Assemblée) prévoyant la gravure des "lois sacrées et ancestrales (hierous kai patrious nomous)" relatives à la pureté, en plusieurs exemplaires (A, l. 1-20) : Asclépiéion, sanctuaire de Déméter, sanctuaire d'Artémis... (Attestation #19169), d'(Artémis) Lochia (Attestation #19161), Aphrodision, sanctuaires des dèmes d'Isthmos et d'Halasarna.
Sont ensuite détaillées les règles de pureté (notamment l'abstinence : hagneiai) pour deux prêtresses de Déméter (A, l. 21-35 et 36-47 : cf. Attestations #19162 et #19164).
La face B consigne d'autres règles relatives aux purifications (katharmoi) manifestement valables pour plusieurs cultes.

Testimonies

Testimony	With restitution
#19161 A, l. 16-17	[τᾶς] Λοχίας
#19162 A, l. 21	Δάματρος Ὀλυμπία[ς - - -]
#19164 A, l. 36	Δάματρος τᾶ̣[ς - - -]
#19165 B, l. 71	Κοροτρόφον
#19166 B, l. 72	Κοροτρόφωι
#19169 A, l. 16	τᾶς Ἀρτάμ̣[ιτος - - -]

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