IThera063

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 difficult to read as natural grooves overlap with the incision of the letters. It runs in an orthograde direction (except for iota) and is located on a rock surface 85 cm east of inscription no. 544. The total length of the inscription is 42 cm. The letter height varies from 20 cm (upsilon, lambda) to 11 cm for the final letter (which may be a second omicron, barely visible as a dot). The iota is aligned higher than the upper stroke of the other letters.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Kappa: oblique bars with different attachment points, divergent. Iota: with three bars. Lambda: angular at the top, oblique strokes of the same lenght. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:End of the 7th century BCE

Findspot:Near the Gymnasium of the Ephebes, Hiller 1896 (Suppl. p. 88); read again by Hiller in 1899 (Suppl. p. 311).

Coordinates:36.36170, 25.48146

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

Edition


Κίλο̣σ̣ος

Apparatus


Inglese: Κίλο̣σ̣ος or Κίλο̣μ̣ος
Hiller: Κίλυμος or Κίλυσος

Commentary

The graffito is barely legible; between the second-to-last and last letter, there is a natural groove. In IG XII 3, Hiller read the inscription as K[h]ρῦσος(?), but in Suppl. 1436 he notes that the third letter is a lambda, and the fourth (actually the fifth) could be a mu or a san—a doubt that remains unresolved. In Suppl., p. 88, he adds: "Nomen Κίλυσος non inauditum sed Larisae in Pelasgiotide notum," citing IG IX 2.580 Κυλίσειος, "et Cretae urbs fuit Κυλισσός: Solin. 11.4; Cylisson, Plin. N.H. IV 59 Gylisos (Gylysos E² D, Gytysos A²; Gitisos A)." The letter Hiller read as upsilon is not otherwise attested and more likely there is an omicron with an internal dot near the lambda, but it is very difficult to read.

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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