IThera065

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

From Hiller's apograph, it is clear that the inscription is orthograde. Inglese did not see it during her survey in 2003. It is likely lost.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Lambda: angular at the top, diagonal strokes of the same lenght. Omicron: smaller than the other letters.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period; there are no indications that allow for a more precise chronological hypothesis beyond a general Archaic period dating.

Findspot:«proxime a n. 547 et 402 orientem versus», Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36148, 25.48188

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


Κλεο[β]ω[λ][- - -]

Apparatus

No critical notes available.

Commentary

Hiller’s transcription indicates that the inscription is written from left to right (orthograde). It was not located during the survey conducted by Inglese in 2002–2003. There are no elements that allow for a more precise dating than a generic attribution to the Archaic period.

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

Download

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