IThera056

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 runs in an orthograde direction and is placed after no. 580.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Mu: fourth bar shorter. Ny: third bar shorter and divergent. Omicron: smaller than the other letters, with an internal dot. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:7th century BCE

Findspot:Hiller, Suppl. p. 88

Coordinates:36.36188, 25.48105

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

Edition


Ἀστύνομος

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

In IG XII.3, the name was read by Hiller as Ἀστύμονος; in Suppl. p. 88, the editor hypothesized an error in the spelling of the name for Ἀστύνομος. However, direct examination and subsequently the rubbing have unequivocally shown that the name is correctly written, so the correct reading is Ἀστύνομος. That it is an anthroponym is quite plausible given the archaeological context of the discovery, which features male proper names and names of deities. Further analysis of ancient sources has revealed that the term ἀστυνόμος is not attested in Homer or Hesiod but is first used by Pindar as an adjective for civic festivals, then by Aeschylus as an adjective for gods, and by Sophocles as an adjective for ὀργάς. Laroche considers ἀστυνόμος to be a common noun used as a proper name, distinguished by its accent (in the classification of 4th-century BCE anthroponyms, the scholar does not mention the Theran name). From a semantic point of view, it should be considered derived from the meaning of νέμω as "to administer" or "to govern."

Bibliography

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Images

Rubbing inv. no. EpiLab-rtv-rub-032 (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. 8)

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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