IThera094

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 the second iota. It is engraved horizontally on a rock surface within a cavity near the western wall of the horseshoe-shaped enclosed area, west of the Temple of Apollo Karneios. The first five letters are quite diffucult to read.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: rounded apex, descending oblique bar from the left stroke. Iota: three-bar form with rounded angles. Theta: circle with cross-shaped bars inside.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:6th century BCE

Findspot:Rock surface inside the cavity of the west wall of the enclosed area, Inglese 2008.

Coordinates:36.36196, 25.48059

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

Edition


Αἰθίοπ̣[ς]

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008

Commentary

The inscription likely preserves an anthroponym, contributing to the study of personal names in the region. Its placement within the cavity provides a terminus post quem for the surrounding walls, supporting Jeffery’s (LSAG[2], p. 316) hypothesis that some enclosed theonyms predate the masonry of the wall. The name is attested in Cyrenaica (Barce, 4th c. BCE) and recalls the figure of Αἰθίοψ, mentioned in Archilochus (fr. 293 West, apud Athenaeus IV 167d, citing Demetrius of Scepsis, fr. 73 Gaede), who traded his land in what would become the apoikia of Syracuse for a honey maza during his journey with Archias toward the colonization of Syracuse.

Bibliography

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

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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