IThera071

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

The text is placed 55 cm from the point where the east wall, which borders the road leading to the terrace and the Gymnasium of the ephebes, ends. It is also 4.25 meters east of the entrance to the enclosed area.

Layout

The inscription is retrograde.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: regular bars, crossbar starting from the lower left terminal. Alpha: regular bars, horizontal crossbar. Iota: three bars with rounded angles. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:6th century BCE

Findspot:Hiller 1896; read again by Hiller in 1899 (Suppl. p. 311).

Coordinates:36.36199, 25.48071

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

Edition


Μαισιάδας

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008

Commentary

The name Μαισιάδας is known with the Ionic-Attic vocalism as Μαισιάδης. Cf. LGPN (s.v.), where the Theran instance is dated to the 6th century BCE.

Bibliography

To consult the full bibliography of the project, visit our Zotero library.

Images

Photograph no. 53 (Inglese 2008). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission

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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