Calendar of Kos’ pompai

TITLE:
Calendar of Kos’ pompai
DATE:
c. 158-145 BC (the inscription has plausibly been to the period when Attalos II was king of Pergamon, and Ptolemy VI was king of Egypt)
TEXT:
Greek text
TRANSLATIONS:
(English)

LE GUEN-POLLET, B. (1991). La vie religieuse dans le monde grec du Ve au IIIe siècle avant notre ère, Pressses Universitaires de Mirail, Toulouse, p. 196, no. 65 (French)
KEYWORDS:
Word used to mean procession:
πομπή (l. A 3-4; l. A 12-14, π]ομπὴ [βασ]ι̣λεῖ [Πτολε]μαίῳ; l. B 5, πομπὴ Εὐμένει; B 16-17, πομπὴ Μουσῶν; l. B 18-19, πομπὴ βασιλεῖ Ἀττ̣ά̣λῳ; l. C 8-9, π[ομπὴ ἀ]ν[ήβων(?)]); διαδρ]ομὰ (l. A 15, διαδρ]ομὰ [παίδω]ν, the word διαδρομή means “a running about through a city”)
Word used to mean the cult images:
Gods or other entities named:

Nike (l. A 2-4) 

Muses (l. B 17)
Description of the cult images:
Procession’s route:
Frequency with which the procession takes place:
Every year in the Koan months of Karneios, Artamitios, and Agrianios
Performers:
References to the public attending the procession:
Rites related to the procession:
Sacrifice to Zeus and to Athena (l. A 2-3, θυσία] Διὶ καὶ [Ἀθάναι); procession for Nike (l. A 3-4, πο[μπὴ] Νίκαι) 

Procession for king Ptolemaios VI Philometor (180-155 BC) (l. A 12-14, π]ομπὴ [βασ]ι̣λεῖ [Πτολε]μαίῳ) 

A procession/parade of boys (l. A 15, διαδρ]ομὰ [παίδω]ν); procession for Eumenes II of Pergamon (197-160 BC) (l. B 5, πομπὴ Εὐμένει) 

Procession for Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamon, 159-138 BC (l. B 18-19, πομπὴ βασιλεῖ Ἀττ̣ά̣λῳ)
Allusions to conduct or forms of reverence:
Other remarkable elements:
The inscription is a calendar of a gymnasion of Kos, only a little over two months of this calendar have been preserved, but they contain several events in honour of various kings
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BÖMMER (1952), RE: s.v. Pompa. Herrscher, Vol. XXI.2, p. 1965, n.277

HÖGHAMMAR, K. (2018): “The sanctuary of the Twelve Gods in Kos and the stelai with proxeny decrees”, Thiasos 7.2, pp. 85-87

LE GUEN-POLLET, B. (1991): La vie religieuse dans le monde grec du Ve au IIIe siècle avant notre ère, Pressses Universitaires de Mirail, Toulouse, p. 196, no. 65

PAUL, S. (2018). “Sharing the civic sacrifice: civic feast, Procession and sacrificial division in the Hellenistic period”. In: 
Feasting and Polis Institutions, Brill, Leiden,  pp. 315-339

PRITCHETT, K. (1946): “Months in Dorian calendars”, American Journal of Archaeology, 50(3), pp. 358-360

RUTHERFORD, I. C. (2009): “The Koan-Delian ritual complex. Apollo and Theoria in a sacred law from Kos”, Apolline Politics and Poetics, Athens, 655-687


THOMSON, G. (1943): “The Greek calendar”, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 63, 52-65