IThera045 Alessandra Inglese Alessandra Inglese 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 ISicily EpiDoc encoding model and validation framework adapted from ISicily ThERA (Theran Epigraphic Rubbings Archive) project IThera045 10.5281/zenodo.17448895 9791298596405 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Greece Santorini Ancient Thera Archaeological site of Ancient Thera Ancient Greek

stone rock face

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.

chiselled

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

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2 A footprint can be seen in the centre of the graffito (22 cm high and 8 cm long). Hiller observed another footprint (below the omicron with the dot inside), of which only faint traces remain today. Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Archaic period «supra epheborum gymnasium prope n. 537». Hiller, 1899, Suppl. p. 30936.36173, 25.48149 Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

Encoded following the latest EpiDoc guidelines

Taxonomies for ThERA controlled values

ThERA anthroponyms authority list

ThERA theonyms authority list

Julian Calendar

 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin Erotic text Erotic text Valentina Mignosa encoded inscription and added metadata Valentina Mignosa adapted the data to taxonomies list, as well as lists of anthroponyms and theonyms Face of inscribed stone
ΤΑΡϘΠhΙ hΕΟΙΣΟΝ ΣΕ ΟΙΝϘΣΘΚΑhΕΟΥ
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"

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

Inglese 2008 nr. 45 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.553 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074