Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.
The inscription, still readable, is retrograde and is located at the bottom right of the same rocky surface as inscription no. 537, 18 cm away from it and 10 cm from the lower edge of the rock. The inscription measures 19 cm in length. The height of the letters, with a slightly descending ductus, varies from 4 cm to 10 cm.
Execution: chiselled.
Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: left stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar. Kappa: oblique bars with different attachment points. Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Omicron: with an internal dot, smaller than the other letters. Rho: angular bowl.
Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)
Date:7th century BCE
Findspot:«infra n. 537», Hiller 1896, Suppl. p. 307.
Coordinates:36.36170, 25.48150
Last recorded location: in situ; Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ
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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
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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