IThera083

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 is located at the lower left of graffito no. 551 and at the upper left of no. 537. The total length of the rocky surface is approximately 2.65 m, but in the upper left part, it is bounded by natural grooves, forming an almost square area (62 × 62 cm), within which the inscription is located.

Layout

The graffito, scarcely legible, runs retrograde (except for iota).

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Iota: three curvilinear bars. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«prope n. 553 in eadem planitie rupis paullo occidentem versus», Hiller 1896

Coordinates:36.36171, 25.48150

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

Edition


ἄριστο[- - -]Α̣Μ[- - -]Σ

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1896: ἄριστ[ο]ς

Commentary

Hiller suggested that before the adjective, an anthroponym had been inscribed. It is impossible to confirm whether the letters belong to a single personal name or to an adjective associated with a personal name; the letter traces seem rather to follow the adjective aristos-. Given the state of the stone, it is not possible to verify whether another name was inscribed before it. Towards the center of the stone are traces of a drawing, likely a rectangle with a central horizontal line dividing it into two and a vertical stroke in the middle; it could possibly represent a dokanon.

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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