IThera050

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 inscription is probably lost; based on Hiller's information, it appears to be retrograde. The editor describes it as being near inscription no. 548 and notes that it is difficult to read.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Ny: second and third bars shorter than the first one

second bar slightly divergent. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:End of the 6th - 5th century BCE (?)

Findspot:«proxime Doriei inscriptione n. 548», Hiller.

Coordinates:36.36162, 25.48129

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


Ἀνάλ[κ]ης

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

In LGPN (s.v.), the name is accepted, albeit tentatively, and is dated to the 6th century BCE. There are no other attestations of this form in Greece, whereas the variant Ἀνακλῆς is attested in one instance in Crete and another in Athens.

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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