IThera045

Findspot and Location

  • Country: Greece
  • Region: Santorini
  • Settlement: Ancient Thera
  • Repository: Archaeological site of Ancient Thera

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

The inscription was barely visible in 2002 (latest autopsy); it is located on the same naturally smoothed rock surface as inscription no. 1418, between no. 551 (below, to the right) and no. 537 (above, to the right). Natural grooves in the stone, forming an irregular rectangle, constitute the epigraphic field.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Iota: featuring three bars. Koppa: vertical stroke extended into the bowl (and touching its upper limit) Omicron: with an internal dot, smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound. Upsilon: both oblique bars attached at the same point on the vertical stroke

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«supra epheborum gymnasium prope n. 537». Hiller, 1899, Suppl. p. 309

Coordinates:36.36173, 25.48149

Last recorded location: Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

Edition


1. ΤΑΡϘΠhΙ
2. hΕΟΙΣΟΝ
3. ΣΕ
4. ΟΙΝϘΣΘΚΑhΕΟΥ

Apparatus


P. Kretschmer's interpretation (Philolog. 1899, 467ff.; he saw the inscription in 1896) mentioned by Hiller: τᾶδ’ ᾦπhε οἰσών σε. However, Hiller wrote after autopsy: "Litteras denuo et saepius a.1899 examinavi et paullo plura vidi, quae infra subieci, sed enucleare omni no nequeo"

Commentary

If Kretschmer's interpretation is correct (see apparatus), it could be an erotic graffito.

Bibliography

To consult the full bibliography of the project, visit our Zotero library.

Images

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Editorial Team

Editor: Alessandra Inglese

Principal Investigator: Alessandra Inglese

Funder: CHANGES - Theme 5. Humanities and Cultural Heritage as Laboratories of Innovation and Creativity, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, Associazione Centro di Eccellenza DTC

Alessandra Inglese: original data collection and edition

Valentina Mignosa: encoding, editing metadata and geo data, website content creation, HTML transformation, website design and styling, interactive mapping implementation

Marika Griffo: rubbings digitisation

Simone Lucchetti: rubbings digitisation

Luigi Tessarolo: website construction, design and styling, interactive mapping implementation

Virgilio Costa: methodological and digital consultancy

Publication Details

Authority: ThERA (Theran Epigraphic Rubbings Archive) project

Licence: Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence

Encoding model / validation: EpiDoc encoding model and validation framework adapted from ISicily

Download

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