IThera064

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

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.

Palaeography

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.

Provenance and Discovery

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?)

Edition


[Κ]λεισίτιμος

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

The restoration is accepted in LGPN (s.v.), which records, in addition to this instance, five other attestations of the name in Rhodes.

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

Download

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