The inscription is difficult to read as natural grooves overlap with the incision of the letters. It runs in an orthograde direction (except for iota) and is located on a rock surface 85 cm east of inscription no. 544. The total length of the inscription is 42 cm. The letter height varies from 20 cm (upsilon, lambda) to 11 cm for the final letter (which may be a second omicron, barely visible as a dot). The iota is aligned higher than the upper stroke of the other letters.
Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Kappa: oblique bars with different attachment points, divergent. Iota: with three bars. Lambda: angular at the top, oblique strokes of the same lenght. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.
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The graffito is barely legible; between the second-to-last and last letter, there is a natural groove. In IG XII 3, Hiller read the inscription as K[h]ρῦσος(?), but in Suppl. 1436 he notes that the third letter is a lambda, and the fourth (actually the fifth) could be a mu or a san—a doubt that remains unresolved. In Suppl., p. 88, he adds: "Nomen Κίλυσος non inauditum sed Larisae in Pelasgiotide notum," citing IG IX 2.580 Κυλίσειος, "et Cretae urbs fuit Κυλισσός: Solin. 11.4; Cylisson, Plin. N.H. IV 59 Gylisos (Gylysos E² D, Gytysos A²; Gitisos A)." The letter Hiller read as upsilon is not otherwise attested and more likely there is an omicron with an internal dot near the lambda, but it is very difficult to read.