Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.
According to Hiller, the inscription runs in an orthograde direction. From the apograph, it appears to be an uncertain script, with letters of varying sizes and not perfectly aligned.
Execution: chiselled.
Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Iota: with three bars. Lambda: angular at the top, oblique strokes of the same lenght. Mu: fourth bar shorter. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.
Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)
Date:Archaic period
Findspot:«prope n. 536 euronotum versus», Hiller.
Coordinates:36.36162, 25.48129
Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)
No critical notes available.
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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
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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