IThera041

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 graffiti are located on two adjacent rock surfaces; they are separated by a natural cut in the stones.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Iota: featuring three bars. Omicron: with an internal dot, smaller than the other letters. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:6th century BCE (line 2)

Findspot:Boeckh

Coordinates:36.36177, 25.48138

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

Edition


a
1. [- - -]ΡΜΟ[- - -]
2. [τα]δεί

b
Δο̄ριεύς

Apparatus


a
line 1.
Hiller: Ηερμοκρέων
line 2.
Hiller: Ταδεὶ

b
Hiller: Δωριεύς

Commentary

The name Ἑρμοκρέων is quite common in Greece. In Thera, in addition to this instance, another case is recorded (no. 780), in which the spelling with a closed eta not followed by epsilon has been noted. A case is also known in Cyrene from the 3rd century BCE. The name Δωριεύς is also very widespread; the Theran occurrence, along with the Spartan one and that of Ialysos in Rhodes, is the oldest.

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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