IThera066

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 orthograde. It is difficult to read and visible only under specific lighting conditions. It is inverted if you compare it to the position of a reader walking in front of it and is located approximately 1 meter to the left of the lower edge of the rock surface where graffito no. 590 is inscribed.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Kappa: oblique strokes with different attachment points

Epsilon: vertical stroke extending downward, oblique bars

Iota: with three bars

Mu: fourth bar shorter

Ny: second and third bar shorter

third bar divergent

Omicron: smaller than the other letters, placed below the third stroke of ny

Rho: angular bowl.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:7th century BCE

Findspot:Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36195, 25.48078

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

Edition


Κρινομέ[νες]

Apparatus


Edition after Hiller 1896
Inglese does not fill the lacuna: Κρινομε-

Commentary

The name, according to Hiller's restoration, Κρινομένης, appears on the island in one case from the Imperial period. It is also recorded on the nearby island of Anaphe in another Imperial-period document and is attested on the islands of Samos (one occurrence from the 5th century BCE) and Thasos (one occurrence from the 4th century BCE).

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 47 (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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