IThera048

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The text is located on a rock 0.80 meters east of the steps leading to the gymnasium.

Layout

The inscription runs in an orthograde direction.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Koppa: with a horizontal stroke extended into the bowl (and touching the upper limit). Phi: round bowl with an internal horizontal stroke (and touching the upper limit). Omicron: smaller than the other letters. Upsilon: with a single oblique bar attached on the middle of the vertical stroke.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:End of the 7th - beginning of the 6th century BCE

Findspot:«prope scalas, quae in epheborum gymnasium ducunt». Hiller, Suppl. p. 309

Coordinates:36.36169, 25.48146

Last recorded location: Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

Edition


Ϙοσυφάς

Apparatus


Hiller: Ϙοσ(σ)υφᾶ

Commentary

The editor in IG XII.3 read Ϙοσ(σ)υφᾶ, commenting: "Meretricis (?) nomen; cf. Bechtel-Fick, Griech. Personennamen 321. Praeter hoc et Δε(ι)νώ mulierum nomina ab hac regione aliena sunt. Sed et Δεινο(ῦ) et Ϙοσ(σ)ύφα genitivi masculini esse possunt (Wilamowitz)". In Suppl., p. 309, Hiller preferred to interpret it as a masculine name in the genitive. However, according to Inglese's direct examination (in 2003) a san (appearing obliquely positioned just below the alpha) might be readable at the end of the name. If the presence of san is accepted, Hiller’s doubt about whether the name is a feminine nominative or a masculine genitive would be resolved, as traces of the final letter would indicate that it may be a masculine nominative. Furthermore, given the proximity to the Gymnasium of the ephebes, the presence of a feminine name seems unlikely, as the graffiti either belong to the erotic sphere, featuring male anthroponyms, or consist of simple male proper names in the nominative, occasionally accompanied by an adjective. The only exception would be the presence of a male proper name in the genitive in this context, where a single anthroponym in the genitive, Βοσκυλέος, is attested in graffito no. 537 and is preceded by παῖδα.

Bibliography

To consult the full bibliography of the project, visit our Zotero library.

Images

Rubbing inv. no. EpiLab-rtv-rub-006 (October 2003). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission

Apograph (Inglese 2008 fig. no. 6)

Photograph no. 40 (Inglese 2008). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission

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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