IThera067

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 is cut into the shape of a triangular stele.

Layout

The graffito is retrograde (except for iota).

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: left stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota: featuring three bars. Ny: second and third bar shorter

third bar divergent. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:6th century BCE

Findspot:Between the Apollo temple and the terrace; Hiller, Suppl. p. 88

Coordinates:36.36188, 25.48100

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

Edition


Λανίκης

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008

Commentary

Hiller suggests (Suppl. p. 88) that the inscription might be a funerary stele and that Λανίκης could have been an esteemed man buried in this area. He also notes that fragments of Geometric-period vases were found near the inscription. If Hiller’s interpretation is right, this would be the only funerary stele identified in this area. The name Λανίκης is attested in Thera only in this instance, whereas it is more common in Greece in the form Λανίκος. It is also known in Athens in one case as Λανίκη and in Epirus in one case as Λανίκα.

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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