IThera051

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 retrograde and extremely difficult to read. It is located at the entrance of the enclosed area, between inscription no. 567 (to the left at approximately 1 meter), and no. 357.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: regular bars, diagonal crossbar starting from the lower right bottom. Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars

used for Eta. Theta: circle with cross-shaped bars inside. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:6th century BCE

Findspot:«proxime ab aedificio supra antiquissima donaria exstructo versus gymnasium». Hiller, 1903, Suppl. p. 310

Coordinates:36.36197, 25.48070

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

Edition


Ἀνθε̄͂ς

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The name Ἀνθῆς is attested in Thera not only in this case but also in another occurrence (IG XII.3.419), dated to the 3rd century BCE. It is also found on the Cycladic island of Amorgos in three attestations (from the 2nd-3rd century CE) and on Keos in one instance from the 5th-4th century BCE and another from the 3rd century BCE.

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

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