IThera004

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 is located in the archaeological context called 'Agora of the Gods' by the first excavators. The text is on the rock floor, which forms the cobbled level, enclosed in the shape of a horseshoe by polygonal walls. This complex is located to the west of the temple of Apollo Carnaeus, from which it is separated by the main road.

Layout

The text is located on an inclined plane within the enclosed area.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: interrupted vertical stroke, diagonal bars

samek: for [dz], with a protruding vertical stroke

ypsilon: with both diagonal bars joining the vertical one.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Late 8th - early 7th century B.C.

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

Coordinates:36.36201, 25.48062

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

Edition


Ζεύ[ς]

Apparatus


Hiller: Ζεύ[ς]

Commentary

The graffito, the first three letters of which are still legible, is written from right to left and is located within the perimeter. For the archaeological context and other references to Zeus, see IThera001 and IThera002 and Inglese 2008, p. 140. It is worth noting the presence of a square hole carved under the name of the deity.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph (Inglese 2008 no. 19). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission

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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