IThera054

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, according to Hiller, has an orthograde orientation; Inglese did not see it in 2003 (latest autopsy) and it is likely lost.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound. Upsilon: divergent oblique bars.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«quindecim passibus infra signum trigonometricum q. v. meridiem versus prope gymnasium epheborum», Hiller.

Coordinates:36.36162, 25.48129

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


Ἀστυκράτης

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The name Ἀστυκράτης has five attestations in Cyrene but is very common in Rhodes (eighteen occurrences), while in Athens it is attested in two cases and in one instance in Megalopolis, Arcadia. It is worth noting that there are other examples on the island of names with Ἀστυ- as the first element and -κράτης as the second one (cf. Inglese 2008, chapter 5 on the possible historical and socio-political value of these attestations). At Thera, the suffixed form Ἀστυκρατίδας is also attested (cf. no. 564 = IThera055).

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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