IThera075

Findspot and Location

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

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

The inscription is orthograde. The rock surface measures 0.50 × 1 meters and is located 6.75 meters east of inscription no. 580. The epigraphic field measures 30 × 48 cm, while the inscription itself is 16 cm long.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: regular bars, horizontal crossbar. Alpha: right stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar. Gamma: junction at 90°. Iota: three rounded bars. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Beginning of the 6th century BCE

Findspot:Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36195, 25.48097

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

Edition


Τ̣ιμαγόρας

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008

Commentary

The name appears on the island in another instance from the Archaic period, no. 536 (= IThera029).

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 55 (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

Download

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