IThera032

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 is 1.80 m high and 1.33 m long (max.).

Layout

The inscription runs on four lines. The drawing measures approx. 19 x 19 cm.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: right stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar

Epsilon: vertical stroke extended downward, oblique strokes

Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar

Iota: featuring three bars

Lambda: angular at the top

Ny: third stroke short and divergent

Rho: rigid bowl

Koppa: vertical stroke extended into the bowl

San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Beginning of the 7th century BCE

Findspot:«supra epheborum gymnasium» Hiller

Coordinates:36.36169, 25.48152

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

Edition


1. Εὔπο̣νος ο̄ἶπhε̣
2. Πασίο̣ϙhος
3. Εὔαισϙρος
4. Κρησίλα̣ς

Apparatus


line 1.
Hiller: Εὔπονος ὦιπh[ε]
line 2.
Hiller: Πασίο̣ϙhος
line 3.
Hiller: Εὔαισϙρος
line 4.
Hiller: Κρησίλας

Commentary

The communicative context of the graffito would relate to the erotic sphere due to the presence of the verb ο̄ἶπhε in line 1. Regarding the meaning of the verb and the nature of the graffiti in which it is attested, see IThera030 commentary.

Bibliography

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

Images

Composite image created from separate rubbings of the same inscription (rubbings inv. nos. EpiLab-rtv-rub-026, EpiLab-rtv-rub-027, EpiLab-rtv-rub-028, made in October 2003). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission

Apograph p. 477(b) (Inglese 2008)

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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