IThera024

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: vertical stroke extending downward, oblique bars. Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota: three-bar shape. San: used for a sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«infra epheborum gymnasium in clivo montis urbani». Hiller, Suppl. p. 292

Coordinates:36.36154, 25.48190

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


1. hικέ[σιος]
1. Σωτέλ[ε]ος (Hiller)

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

Although lacunose in its final part, hικέσιος is recognized as an epithet of Zeus, attested twice more in the city within the same chronological horizon. In the text restored by Hiller, Σωτέλεος is likely to be read as the name of the dedicator in the genitive case. The personal name present in the graffito is well attested in Greece from the first half of the 5th century BCE onward; the example from Thera is the earliest known occurrence of the anthroponym.

Bibliography

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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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