IThera019

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 has not been located and is likely lost. It would have been situated outside the enclosed area, beyond the northern wall. These external rock surfaces feature holes of varying sizes and shapes, some resembling those found on the pavement level, while others are more sharply and regularly cut.

Layout

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Beta: open form. Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal 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:36.36200, 25.48052

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


Βορίσκο[ς] hερμότιμος (Hiller)

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The inscription is likely lost and has never been relocated. It would have been situated outside the perimeter wall of the area, which contains numerous rock surfaces bearing inscriptions and holes of varying sizes. Some of the graffiti found on these rock faces can likely be dated to the Archaic period, but most examples are attributable to the second half of the 5th century BCE. Hiller initially transcribed the name as Ηερμείας, later as Ηερμότιμος in IG XII 3, 368, before ultimately revising his reading to Βορίσκος or Βωρίσκος in 1899 (Suppl. p. 291). This name is otherwise unattested in Greece. If Βορ- is accepted, it may represent a theophoric name, possibly related to inscription no. 357. Ἑρμότιμος is uncommon in Greece, though it appears in later inscriptions from Cyprus, Athens, and Eretria.

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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