IThera036

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The inscription is located 3.45 m north of no. 574 and 4.84 m west of no. 551. The rock surface measures 74 cm in height (max.) and 1.20 m in length (max.)

Layout

Almost nothing remains of the text: 4 cm from the lower edge, in a retrograde and ascending direction, traces of three letters can be discerned. Still distinguishable 8 cm from the lower edge are beta, alpha (4 cm), kappa (6 cm), san (7 cm), and omicron (4 cm). The majority of the name read by Hiller has been lost.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Beta: lower bowl closed, upper bowl opBeta:en. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:First half of the 7th century BCE (Inglese); begining of the 7th (Masson); end of the 8th (?) (Jeffery)

Findspot:near the Gymnasium, Hiller

Coordinates:36.36171, 25.48144

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

Edition


0. [- - -]
1. [- - -]ΒΑΚΣΟ[- - -]
2. [- - -]ΟΣ

Apparatus


line 1.
Hiller, in IG XII,3,543: [- - -]ατοκλ[ῆ]ς
line 2.
Hiller, in IG XII,3,543: Ἀστύοϙος
line 2.
Hiller, Suppl.: Βάρβαξ ὀρκhε̄στά[ς] τε ἀγαθὸς[- - -]

Commentary

For Gallavotti, the graffito could be a hexameter, although the decipherment remains uncertain at the end. He read: Βάρβακς ὀρχεῖται τ(ε) ἀγαθό[ς τ]ε διδο[ῖ τὰ] ποτανῆ, and then corrected his reading as: Βάρβακς ὀρκhεῖται τ(ε) ἀγαθῶι τε διδο[ῖ τὰ] ποτανῆ. Whatever the reading may be, it is worth emphasizing the reference to the dance, already encountered in other texts (see IThera033).

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

Download

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