IThera017

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: epsilon: with a vertical stroke extending at the bottom and oblique bars. san: used for the sibilant sound (according to Hiller).

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«proxime ab aedificio supra antiquissima donaria extructo occidentem versus» Hiller; the editor read the inscription again in 1902: «infra, non extra aedificium perantiquum» Hiller, Suppl. p. 291

Coordinates:36.36201, 25.48065

Last recorded location: A. Inglese, autopy and rubbing

Edition


[Κ]λ̣ειτόριος

Apparatus


Hiller: [Π]ε[λ]ώ[ρ]ιος (Hiller)

Commentary

According to Hiller's indications, the inscription would have been retrograde and located near the prominent part of the eastern wall. In his first reading of IG XII 3, 366, Hiller was uncertain about the third letter, debating whether it was a lambda, gamma, or tau, and the fifth letter as either upsilon or rho. In the Suppl., the inscription was re-examined and thought to refer to the epithet of Zeus Pelorios. The doubts from Hiller's first reading are noted in SGDI 4724. Based on our examination of the digitised rubbing, we propose an alternative interpretation of the inscription.

Bibliography

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

Images

Rubbing inv. no. EpiLab-rtv-rub-013 (October 2003). © 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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