IThera057

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 and still perfectly legible. The epigraphic field is enclosed within a rectangle.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: left stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar. Beta: lower bowl closed, upper bowl open. Iota: featuring three bars. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:7th century BCE

Findspot:Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36199, 25.48069

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

Edition


Βιαῖος

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The anthroponym occurs in Thera in this only instance. In Greece, it is known in Naupactus in Locris in five cases, in Aetolia in one case, and in Tegea in Arcadia in another occurrence. However, this Theran instance is the earliest attestation of the name. The inscription is retrograde and still perfectly legible. The epigraphic field is enclosed within a rectangle (minimum width: 27 cm, maximum: 30 cm; height on the right side: 15 cm, on the left side: 12 cm), within which the name is inscribed. The short left side of the rectangle features three irregular semicircles arranged vertically. While these semicircles may simply be a decorative element, they could also suggest a hinge or a lateral grip, possibly evoking the shape of a writing tablet.

Bibliography

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Images

Photograph no. 42 (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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