IThera025

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: Alpha: regular oblique strokes, diagonal crossbar. Epsilon: vertical stroke extending downward, oblique bars. Iota: vertical. Pi: with a second shorter bar parallel to the main one.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:Hiller

Coordinates:36.36166, 25.48209

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


Πλε[ισθε]νιδᾶν (Hiller)

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The inscription, which has not been traced, is retrograde according to Hiller’s indications. Given the archaeological context, which features either simple anthroponyms in the nominative or the personal names of dedicants to deities in the genitive, it is also possible that the final letter is a san, whose fourth stroke has been lost. Regarding the dating, no information from direct autoptic verification is available. However, if Hiller’s edition is correct, a hypothetical dating to the early 5th century BCE could be proposed. Although the inscription is still retrograde, some of the surviving letters exhibit later forms (rho with a short parallel stroke, vertical iota), whereas others retain archaizing features (epsilon with an extended vertical stroke, lambda with an upper angle and a short second stroke).

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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