IThera003

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The inscription was located in the archaeological context called 'Agora of the Gods' by the first excavators.

Layout

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: The graffito is probably lost. Hiller's scant evidence suggests that it was legible in the first three letters, written backwards. Letters: samek: for [dz], with a protruding vertical stroke upsilon: with a single oblique bar superimposed on the vertical stroke, as in the inscription no. 351 (IThera002), relating to the same deity.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«Intra aedificium perantiquum, quod prope Apollinis Carnei templum meridiem fere versus situm est». Hiller, Suppl. p. 86

Coordinates:36.36198, 25.48064

Last recorded location: Non vidi

Edition


Ζεύ[ς]

Apparatus


Hiller: Ζεύ[ς]

Commentary

The graffito is likely lost, but based on Hiller's limited observations, the first three letters of the inscription were readable in retrograde. The paleographic features include the use of samek for the [dz] sound and an upsilon with a single oblique stroke attached to the vertical line. These characteristics are similar to those found in inscription no. 351, also dedicated to the same deity, Zeus. For more information on the general archaeological context and other attestations of Zeus, refer to inscriptions nos. 350 and 351.

Bibliography

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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

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