IThera062

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The rock surface measures 1.65 meters in height and 0.50 meters in width.

Layout

The inscription is still perfectly legible and runs across two lines: line 1 is orthograde, while line 2 is retrograde.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Kappa: oblique bars with different attachment points on the vertical stroke. Eta (ll. 1-2): represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota (l. 2): three curvilinear bars. Lambda (l. 2): apex at the top, oblique strokes of the same lenght. Rho (l. 1): angular bowl. San (ll. 1-2): used for the sibilant sound. Theta (l. 1): circle with cross-shaped bars inside.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

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

Findspot:Near the graffito nr. 542 (IThera035), Hiller 1896 (Suppl. p. 88) and read again by Hiller in 1899 (Suppl. p. 311).

Coordinates:36.36193, 25.48085

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

Edition


1. Θαρῆς
2. Ἁγασικλῆς

Apparatus


Hiller: Θαρ[ρ]ῆς Ἁγασικλῆς

Commentary

The name Ἀγασικλῆς is attested on the island in two other cases besides this one (no. 399 from the 4th century BCE and no. 1549, 7 from the Imperial period). In Cyrene, it has four attestations (from the 5th, 4th, and 3rd centuries BCE) and is generally well attested in Greece. However, this occurrence is the earliest attestation of the name. The island also features other examples of names composed with the first element Θαρρ- (cf. nos. 544, 763, 787).

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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