IThera028 Alessandra Inglese Alessandra Inglese 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 Luigi Tessarolo website construction, design and styling, interactive mapping implementation Virgilio Costa methodological and digital consultancy ISicily EpiDoc encoding model and validation framework adapted from ISicily Inscriptions from Thera IThera028 10.5281/zenodo.17448895 9791298596405 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Greece Santorini Ancient Thera Archaeological site of Ancient Thera Ancient Greek

The inscription is orthograde and is chiselled on a rock surface approximately 12 cm from the base of the large terrace wall, facing north. The rock surface measures 2.75 m in height and 1.90 m in length. The inscription is located 1.15 m from the lower edge of the stone.

stone rock face

chiselled

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. San: used for a sibilant sound. Samek: for [dz], with a protruding vertical stroke. Upsilon: single oblique bar attached to the vertical stroke.

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2 The inscription features a graffito of a ship below the name of the deity, which has not been previously recorded. Recess, rectangular. The archaeological context, at the base of the terrace wall, features numerous inscriptions from a later period, various square or rectangular recesses, and two other inscriptions from the Archaic period. Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 6th century BCE «ante murum altum prope epheborum gymnasium» Hiller, Suppl. p. 8636.36180, 25.48067 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ; rubbing

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 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin votive inscription Invocation, theonym Valentina Mignosa encoded inscription and added metadata Valentina Mignosa adapted the data to taxonomies list, as well as lists of anthroponyms and theonyms Face of inscribed stone Rubbing inv. no. EpiLab-rtv-rub-004 (October 2003). © 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. 10)
Ζηύς
Hiller: Ζηύς

According to Jeffery, the inscription can be dated to the late 8th century BCE. Jeffery and Guarducci observed that the use of samek for [dz] in the city's early inscriptions was previously limited to the name of Zeus; a recent discovery suggests it may also appear in Ζεύχσιος. The inscription was found at the base of a terrace wall, an area rich in later inscriptions, square or rectangular cuttings, and two other Archaic inscriptions (no. 589 and no. 595, the latter now lost). This evidence suggests that in the Archaic period this lower area functioned similarly to the upper terrace, sharing cultic significance and the presence of personal names.

Inglese 2008 nr. 28 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.1313 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074 Schwyzer 1923 p. 109 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000778252