IThera076

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The rock surface has a height of 1.50 meters. The inscription is placed 1.60 meters east from the base of the large wall ('murus magnus').

Layout

The inscription is orthograde (except for iota). It is located 1.60 meters east from the base of the large wall. The rock surface has a height of 1.50 meters, and the total length of the inscription is 40 cm. It is positioned approximately 40 cm below the upper edge of the rock.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: regular bars, diagonal crossbar. Iota: with three bars. Lambda: angular at the top. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

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

Findspot:«ante i.e. infra murum vetum, qui prope epheborum gymmnasium est», Hiller 1896; read again by Hiller in Suppl. p. 312.

Coordinates:36.36179, 25.48072

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

Edition


Καρίλας

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1896 read [Κ]αρίλας

Commentary

The name Καρίλας is attested in Thera in this instance and possibly in the later inscription no. 1484 as Χ[αρ]ίλ[ας]. In Cyrene, Χαρίλας is known in two occurrences from the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. It is a relatively common name in Greece (e.g., numerous cases in Delos). In Italy, it is attested in Locri with five occurrences and once in Sicily.

Bibliography

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

Images

Rubbing inv. no. EpiLab-rtv-rub-003 (April 2006). © 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. 9)

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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