Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.
The inscription is retrograde, located about 1 m to the right below no. 556, running along the lower margin of the rocky surface. This margin serves as a guideline or as a baseline for the framing, traces of which may be perceived above the upper ends of the letters as a horizontal line, and to the left of the name as a vertical line.
Execution: chiselled.
Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: left stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar. Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. San: used for the sibilant sound.
Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)
Date:End of the 7th - beginning of the 6th century BCE
Findspot:«a n. 556 unius metri spatium euronotum fere versus abest», Hiller 1903.
Coordinates:36.36168, 25.48153
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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