IThera039

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

Currently, line 1 is lost; line 2 has disappeared beneath a deep horizontal cut (see photo); in line 3, only the letters -ας ἀραθός can be read.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Theta: circle with cross-shaped bars inside. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:7th century BCE

Findspot:between the temple of Apollo Carneus and the wall, Hiller

Coordinates:36.36196, 25.48083

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

Edition


0. [- - -]
1. [- - -]ΑΣ ἀραθος

Apparatus


line 1.
Hiller, Suppl.: i.e. ὦιπhε?
line 2.
Hiller, Suppl.: Κ[h]αριτε[ρπ]ής
line 3.
Hiller, Suppl.: Βίας ἀ[γ]αθός

Commentary

The name K(h)αριτε[ρπ]ής is recorded, albeit with some uncertainty, in the LGPN (the name is also known from inscription Suppl. no. 1450 = IG XII 3.590); however, it is not attested elsewhere in Greece.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 36 (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

To consult the full TEI EpiDoc XML source of this inscription, click here.