IThera061

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The text is located on a rock placed to the right of inscription no. 545.

Layout

The inscription is retrograde and clearly legible.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Lambda: rounded at the top. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

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

Findspot:«in rupe inter Apollinis Carnei templum et murum longum», Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36193, 25.48084

Last recorded location: in situ; Last seen by A. Inglese in 2006 in situ

Edition


Εὐρυτέ̣λης

Apparatus


Hiller: Εὐρυτέλης

Commentary

The LGPN (s.v.) records no other attestations of the name beyond this instance, assigning it a date from the 7th century BCE onwards. The first element Εὐρυ- is attested in Thera on multiple occasions: IG XII.3 nos. 1432, 1433, 1462, 1464.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 44 (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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