IThera082

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 and positioned on the horizontal plane of a rectangular rocky surface measuring 2.30 m in length. According to Hiller's indications, it is located 1.50 m northeast of no. 574, 2.50 m south of no. 543, and 4.32 m west of no. 551.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: diagonal crossbar. Koppa: horizontal stroke extended into the bowl. Iota: three curvilinear bars. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound. Upsilon: single oblique stroke attached to the vertical stroke.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:7th century BCE

Findspot:«1,50 a n. 574, 2,00 a n. 543 distans», Hiller 1899

Coordinates:36.36170, 25.48144

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

Edition


Φῦδρ̣ος ἄ̣ρι[στος]

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1896: φῦ[δ]ρος ἄριστος

Commentary

The name in this form Φῦδρος is only known from Thera. However, it is known as Κυδρίων in Athens, Thasos, Locris, and Aetolia; the form Κύδρων is known, for instance, in Delos.

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

Download

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