IThera072

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 orthograde (except for iota) and is located 35 cm to the left of inscription no. 545. The rock surface measures 75 × 95 cm, while the epigraphic field measures 14 × 42 cm.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Beta: open. Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Iota: with three bars. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:7th century BCE

Findspot:«prope aedificium supra antiquissima donaria exstructum», Hiller 1896 (Suppl. p. 88); read again by Hiller in 1903 (Suppl. p. 311)

Coordinates:36.36193, 25.48082

Last recorded location: in situ; Last seen by A. Inglese in 2006 in situ

Edition


Βεισίγορ̣ος

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1896: Βεισίγολος
IG XII.3 (Hiller): Βεισί[μ]ορος
SGDI 4805: Πεισί[μ]ορος
Wilamowitz (in Hiller, Suppl. p. 88): Πεισί[π]ορος

Commentary

The name restored by Hiller is not recorded in LGPN. For other hypotheses of integration, see the apparatus.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 54 (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

Download

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