IThera053

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 inscription is retrograde (except for iota) and runs horizontally before rising almost at a right angle starting from the delta. A vertical groove is visible on the rock between the third alpha and the ny.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: left stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar. Iota: featuring three bars. Mu: fourth bar shorter. Ny: third stroke shorter and slightly divergent. Omicron: 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:Beginning of the 6th century BCE

Findspot:between the Apollo temple and the wall, «occidentem versus», Hiller.

Coordinates:36.36196, 25.48079

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

Edition


Ἀρασίμανδρος

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The name is attested only in this instance. It should be noted that the second element either derived from the theonym Μάνδρος or, according to recent studies, from a hydronym. The name holds a significant place in the onomastics of Ionia. The earliest attestation appears in the 7th century BCE on Chios in the compound Μανδραγόρης. It is therefore plausible that this Theran anthroponym from the early 6th century BCE implies connections with Ionia (cf. Inglese 2003, chapter 3).

Bibliography

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Images

Rubbing inv. no. EpiLab-rtv-rub-008 (October 2003). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission

Apograph (Inglese 2008, fig. no. 7)

Photograph no. 41 (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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