• Cos to Samothrace, 2nd c. BC (theoros, gr. θεωρός)

Phainippos son of Demokrates, together with Kallikrates son of Philippides, is a Coan man mentioned in a list of theoroi (I.Samothrace Theoroi 6, 26) who paid an official visit to the shrine of the Great Gods in Samothrace, during the same unknown year. The eponymous basileus of this year is [—]x son of Athana[—], not attested elsewhere. All these men were rewarded with proxeny. The other delegations of theoroi came from Samos and Teos. Phanippos son of Demokrates is not mentiones anywhere else, even if both Phainippos and Damokrates (the Doric form of Demokrates) are attested many times in the prosopography of Cos.

To date I.Samothrace Theoroi 6 one has to rely mainly on palaeography: the shape especially of deltas, ni, omicron, and pi suggests that the text was inscribed in the mid-to-late Hellenistic period.