IThera059

Findspot and Location

  • Country: Greece
  • Region: Santorini
  • Settlement: Ancient Thera
  • Repository: Archaeological site of Ancient Thera

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Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Hiller states that he found the inscription «infra 536»; however, according to Inglese 2008 the stone is actually located to the left of inscription no. 540, to the right of no. 539, and below no. 537. It measures approximately 75 cm in maximum height, 65 cm in minimum height, and about 59 cm in length.

Layout

The graffito runs in a retrograde direction.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Ny: second and third bars shorter

third bar divergent. Pi: hook-shaped. Omicron: smaller than the other letters.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

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

Findspot:«infra n. 536», Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36165, 25.48153

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

Edition


Βιαῖος

Ἐνπεδοκ̣λῆς

Apparatus

No critical notes available.


Hiller: Ἐνπεδο[κλῆς]

Commentary

The graffito is retrograde. Hiller states that he saw it infra 536; in reality, the rock surface is located to the left of inscription no. 536, to the right of no. 539, at the bottom of the rock wall. It measures in height between a maximum of 75 cm and a minimum of 65 cm, and in length approximately 59 cm. The lower part of the rock surface is a carved ledge, beginning 15 cm below the epsilon, and 4 cm below the delta of line 2. The first six letters, as published by Hiller, are legible with some difficulty, and the surface is quite damaged. The graffito, after the rho, which is the top-leftmost letter, seems to rise toward the left edge of the rock face, with a rather curved ductus: the upper terminals and a portion of the oblique lower strokes of kappa, iota, lambda, and the closed eta can be seen; the final sigma is partly preserved, although in that point the rock surface is particularly chipped. Before the first letter, delta, traces of marks are visible, but it is unclear whether they are letters. The date given in LGPN (s.v.) is 7th–6th century BCE.

Bibliography

To consult the full bibliography of the project, visit our Zotero library.

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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