IThera046

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 inscritpion is retrograde and is placed 90 cm east of graffito no. 546. The epigraphic field measures 45 × 30 cm. The letters are still legible, but it is unclear whether the ο has an internal dot, as the bowl is precisely marked at its center by a fracture. Below the name, in the lower part of the rock surface, there are traces of other letters that cannot be deciphered.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Gamma: upper junction 90°. Lambda: rounded at the top. Omicron: with a dot inside (?), smaller than the other letters. Ny: second and third bar shorter than the first one

third bar divergent.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:End of the 7th - beginning of the 6th century BCE

Findspot:«prope Apollinis Carnei templum meridiem versus». Hiller, Suppl. p. 309

Coordinates:36.36195, 25.48081

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

Edition


Ἄγλο̣̣̄ν̣

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The name Ἄγλων is also attested in Thera in another case from the Archaic period, IG XII.3.762(b1). Other attestations in the Doric sphere are found in Melos (a case from the 5th century BCE) and in Rhodes (a case dated to 117–116 BCE). The name is also present in Thasos in an occurrence from the 4th century BCE. (cf. LGPN, s.v.).

Bibliography

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Images

Photograph no. 38 (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

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