IThera043

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 graffito is probably lost. According to Hiller, it would run on two lines with an orthograde orientation (with the exception of iota in ἐπί and in Hερμαίο).

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota: featuring three bars. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36162, 25.48129

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


1. Ἐπὶ Δυμᾶνος
2. το[ῦ] Ηερμαίο[υ] ἀπώρεκσ’ ἁιή [- - -]ΚΣ

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

On the island, there are other compound names with Ἑρμ- as the first element, written both with and without initial vocalic aspiration. This is one of the rare cases of a patronymic. The proper name Δυμᾶν is known only in this Theran instance and recalls the Dorian tribe of the Dimani.

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

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