The inscription is probably lost. According to Hiller, it runs in an orthograde direction
but is incomplete between
the tau and the final alpha. Based on the information provided by the editor, the
letters appear large and irregular in size.
Execution: chiselled.
Palaeography
Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant
sound.
Provenance and Discovery
Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)
Date:6th - 5th century BCE
Findspot:«infra n. 536», Hiller.
Coordinates:36.36162, 25.48129
Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)
Edition
Ἀστυκράτης
Apparatus
No critical notes available.
Commentary
The inscription is probably lost. According to Hiller, it runs left to right, but
it is incomplete between the tau and the final
alpha. Based on the information provided by Hiller, the letters are large and the
letter height is not uniform
(ranging between 0.06 and 0.08 m). In the absence of an autopsy, it is not possible
to propose a more precise date than a
generic archaic phase; however, based on Hiller’s scant notes, it is cautiously possible
to suggest a mature archaic phase
(late 6th–early 5th c. BCE).
SGDI 4805: Astukrat--. Hiller’s restoration Ἀστυκρατ[δ]α is accepted, although with
some uncertainty, by the LGPN (s.v.),
which lists numerous attestations of the name in Rhodes (see also IThera054). It is
also possible that the name could be restored after the final alpha
with a san, since personal names in the genitive in this context of the Agora of the
Gods are extremely rare (and doubtful),
and so a masculine nominative should be read—as Hiller himself proposed in the general
index. It is also possible, in principle,
that this could be a feminine nominative; however, it should be noted that no feminine
names are attested in this area,
except in the case of inscription no. 369a, which is located far from this area and
near the Gymnasium of the Ephebes in the area of the erotic graffiti.
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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
