IThera042

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 is probably lost. According to Hiller it would run on two lines with an orthograde orientation.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: regular bars, horizontal crossbar. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota: vertical stroke. Mu: first and fourth bars of equal length. Sigma: featuring four divergent bars.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Mid of the 5th century BCE

Findspot:beyond the Gymnasium of the Ephebes, final part of the south promontory, Hiller

Coordinates:36.36149, 25.48188

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


1. [- - -]ς ἠμὶ πᾶσ[ι]
1. καλός

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The graffito is likely lost. The formula has no known parallels at Thera, nor is the adjective kalos attested in the context of the Agora of the Gods. It is worth noting the use of a closed eta for η in the first-person form εἰμί. The only indicator for a more precise dating is Hiller’s apograph, which displays a later-style palaeography. On this basis, a date around the mid-5th century BCE can therefore be suggested.

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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