IThera058

Findspot and Location

  • Country: Greece
  • Region: Santorini
  • Settlement: Ancient Thera
  • Repository: Archaeological site of Ancient Thera

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The rock surface has an irregular height, with a maximum of 55 cm and a minimum of 24 cm, and a width of 90 cm.

Layout

The graffito runs in an orthograde direction and is located approximately 1.80 meters from inscription no. 573.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: rounded apex, diagonal crossbar. Iota: with three curvilinear bars. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«prope n. 454 orientem versus». Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36194, 25.48087

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

Edition


Διαλϙο̄́ν̣ι̣ος

Apparatus


Hiller: Διάλϙ̣ωνος
Inglese: Διαλϙο̄́νιος or Διαλο̄́σιος

Commentary

Accepting Hiller’s reading, the name could be the genitive of Διάλκων; it should be noted that this would be one of only two instances of simple masculine genitives present in this context. However, it is also possible that it is a nominative (if one hypotesizes a san as the third-to-last or fourth-to-last letter). The name, in the form reconstructed by Hiller, is known only in this instance but is attested in Mantinea as Διάλκης.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 43 (Inglese 2008). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission

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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