IThera005

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. It is located within the enclosed area, on a rocky surface at ground level, near the northern wall. 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 laid out on the horizontal plane of the cliff, in Hiller's reading it consists of five lines and some drawings irregularly arranged on the cliff.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Koppa: with a prolonged horizontal stroke within the bowl Epsilon: vertical stroke extending downward, oblique lines Omicron: smaller than the other letters Rho: rounded bowl San: for sibilant sound

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Late 8th - early 7th century BCE

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

Coordinates:36.36201, 25.48057

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

Edition


Ϙο̄ρε̄ς

Apparatus


Hiller: Ϙο(υ)ρε̄́ς

Commentary

The graffito, written in reverse, is located on a rocky surface within a fenced area near the north wall. The inscription, which is long 37 cm, has varying letter heights, with distinctive archaic features like the elongated koppa and the epsilon used for eta. These characteristics suggest the graffito dates back to an early archaic phase. Other similar inscriptions (nos. 350 and 354) are found on the same floor, while a third (no. 371) is uncertain.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph (Inglese 2008 no. 20). © 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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