The inscription is currently lost. According to Hiller’s reading, it is arranged in three lines: the first two run in an orthograde direction, except for the iota in Ἰσοκλῆς on line 2; the third line is retrograde.
Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera (Hiller): Epsilon: vertical stroke slightly protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Pi: hook-shaped. San: used for the sibilant sound. Theta: circle with cross-shaped bars inside.
Encoded following the latest EpiDoc guidelines
Taxonomies for ThERA controlled values
ThERA anthroponyms authority list
ThERA theonyms authority list
Julian Calendar
It should be noted that the first term in l. 1 could be any personal name (ending in -κς), followed by an adjective, as commonly attested in this area, and not necessarily Μόθαξ. Furthermore, the integration of Μόθαξ, chosen by Hiller, is likely the result of a scholarly association with line 3: παο͂ θετός (παός, Doric for πηός "relative", "in-law"; θετός "adopted"), which links the anthroponym in line 2 to the concept of adoption. As Chantraine explains, μόθος, with the -ακ- suffix (frequent in Doric), means "son of a helot or a perioikos, raised with the sons of a citizen." This could suggest that the integration of the personal name in line 1 was influenced by the reading of the subsequent lines. The name Ἰσοκλῆς is well attested in Greece (cf. LGPN s.v., which dates the theran attestation to the VII c. BCE) and in Thera (with three later occurrences).