IThera086

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 graffito is retrograde, measures 45 cm in length. The inscription is inverted with respect to the walking surface. Letter height varies.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Kappa: oblique bars with different attachment points. Iota: three-bars shape. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:End of the 7th century BCE

Findspot:«Intra aedificium antiquissimum», Hiller 1896.

Coordinates:36.36197, 25.48066

Last recorded location: in situ; Last seen by A. Inglese in 2006 in situ

Edition


Κικῖνος

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1896: Κίκιν[ν]ος

Commentary

The name is attested only in these two examples: in the anthroponym of inscription no. 552, it is reconstructed by Hiller as Κικῖνος, while here it is transcribed by the editor as Κίκιν(ν)ος. It should be noted that in the archaeological context of discovery, divine names predominate (cf. records nos. 350 ff.), and this graffito would be the sole certain attestation of a man's name, although it should be noted that graffito no. 350 probably contains two other anthroponyms.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 63 (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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