IThera078

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 located between graffito no. 606 and no. 548 (95 cm above and to the right of the latter).

Layout

The surviving letters appear orthograde.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Ny: second and third bars shorter

third bar divergent. San (?): used for the sibilant sound (uncertain).

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«supra epheborum gymnasium», Hiller 1896 (Suppl. p. 89).

Coordinates:36.36174, 25.48141

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

Edition


[- - -]Σ̣ΗΝ

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1896: Πσήν

Commentary

The surviving letters appear to be orthograde; in 2003 the lower left terminal of the first letter could just barely read, probably an eta (closed eta, 6 cm high). Before the san, the rock surface is marked by a diagonal cut that makes it difficult to read the first letter as reconstructed by Hiller. The rock is located between graffito no. 606 and no. 548 (95 cm above and to the right of the latter), measuring approximately 98 cm in height and 50 cm in length. Hiller’s reading included a pi with a hook preceding the san. In Suppl. p. 89, Hiller recalled: “On the name Ψῆν, see K. Fr. Schmidt in B. ph. Woch 1918, 1076: ‘a scratching from Silsilis that resembles those from Thera, Ἀμμώνιος Καλλιδρόμου ἐψέν(ισται) = ἐψήνισται.” See also Suid. s.v. Ψῆνες: Ὑπεψηνισμένη (...) ἡ ἐγκύμων and s.v. Ψηνίζω· οὐδεὶς κομήτης ὅστις οὐ ψηνίζεται.” [this author translation from German and Latin]. If Hiller’s reading of the first letter is correct, note the ligature ΠΣ and the closed eta used for η. The name, accepted in the LGPN (s.v.), is known only on the island.

Bibliography

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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

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