IThera087

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, retrograde, is scarcely legible. The editor does not provide an apograph.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: diagonal crossbar. Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Iota: three curvilinear bars. Pi: hook-shaped.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:6th century BCE (?)

Findspot:«prope n. 581 versus aedificium perantiquum», Hiller 1899; read again by Hiller in 1903.

Coordinates:36.36192, 25.48086

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

Edition


Ἐπια̣β̣α̣[- - -]

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1899: ΕΠΙΔΙΑϘΟΣ or ἐπὶ Ἄβαϙος ?

Commentary

The inscription, written in retrograde, is barely legible. Hiller proposed two possible readings because in his 1903 revision the fourth letter appeared to be an alpha and the fifth an open beta, similar to what is found in no. 1427 leading him to hypothesize ἐπὶ Ἄβαϙος (?). The editor does not include the apograph. In 2003 only the following letters were legible: epsilon, pi, iota, beta, second alpha. Traces of the first alpha were visible.

Bibliography

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

Images

Photograph no. 64 (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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