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 |
