IThera018

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

The graffito, now likely lost, was described by Hiller as running in an orthograde direction, except for iota, which was retrograde. For the archaeological context of its discovery, see IThera019.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding below the baseline, with oblique strokes. Iota: three strokes. Rho: rigid bowl. 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:36.36201, 25.48052

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


Ἐρι[- - -]ες (Hiller)

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The inscription, now likely lost, ran from left to right (orthograde) according to Hiller’s notes, except for the iota, which was retrograde. For the archaeological context of the find, see entry no. 368. Kern proposed restoring the inscription with the term Ἐρι[νύ]ες, based on a comparison with a passage from Herodotus concerning the Aegeidae of Sparta, who dedicated a sanctuary to the Erinyes of Laius and Oedipus. Hiller, in IG XII 3, also referenced the restorations proposed by Kaibel and Wilamowitz, who suggested the inscription could refer to the anthroponym Ἐριήρης. In Cyrene, on an altar to Hermes Dolios, the letters Ἐρι. appear, which Pugliese Carratelli interpreted as an abbreviation of Ἐριούνιος, an epithet of Hermes, while Dobias-Lalou (2000) prefers the reading Ἐρι[νύμενος], referring to Zeus. For a broader discussion, see Inglese 2008, pp. 182–185.

Bibliography

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Images

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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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