IThera013

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The graffito is retrograde and is located on the same rock surface as the inscription IThera010. Below a rectangular space, which serves as the epigraphic field for the inscription IThera010 and is bordered on both sides by two recesses (see IThera010), there is a fracture under which the three letters can be read. The rock surface at the beginning of the inscription is quite damaged, but there do not appear to be any traces of additional letters.

Layout

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: with a diverging stroke and oblique crossbar. san: used for the sibilant sound.

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:36.36199, 25.48064

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

Edition


[- - -]ΔΑΣ

Apparatus


Hiller: [- - -]ΔΑΣ

Commentary

The inscription is written in retrograde and located on the same rocky surface as inscription no. 359 (= IThera010). It lies beneath a rectangular space used as an epigraphic mirror where no. 359 is found, bordered by two external incisions. A fracture lowers the surface of the rock by approximately 5 cm, below which three letters can be discerned. The total length of the inscription measures about 18 cm. The san is positioned approximately 21 cm from the left edge and about 5 cm from the lower edge of the rock. The letter heights range from 6 to 8 cm. Despite damage to the rock, the preserved letters remain relatively clear. Hiller suggests that the remaining letters might form part of a term that could be reconstructed as [Ποτι]δᾶς(?) or [Ηαί]δας(?). Braun also considered the three letters as potentially representing the final letters of the Doric theonym Ποτειδάν. However, following an autopsy of the document, Inglese (2008) states with reasonable certainty that there is not enough space to accommodate the five additional letters that Braun’s proposed restoration would require.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 27 (Inglese 2008). © 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

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