IThera088

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 orthograde. It is placed at the center of a rocky surface near the entrance of the enclosed area, close to inscription no. 567.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Iota: three curvilinear bars. Pi: hook-shaped. Upsilon: short oblique bars diverging and attached atop the vertical stroke.

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:End of the 7th - beginning of the 6th century BCE

Findspot:«prope n. 567», Hiller 1899.

Coordinates:36.36200, 25.48068

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

Edition


Πολ̣υει

Apparatus


Edition after Inglese 2008
Hiller 1899: Πολυ[- - -]

Commentary

Hiller read Πολυ-; Inglese, during 2003 campaign, could recognize the pi, lambda, and upsilon. The graffito is the smallest among the others and aligned above them. As for the third letter, already uncertain to the editor, it appears to be a lambda, although its oblique stroke is difficult to distinguish because it is unclear whether the stroke is properly joined to the upper end of the vertical shaft via an acute or right angle. The terminal of this stroke appears to extend downward, but it is not clear whether the line is part of the letter's actual shape or a natural groove in the stone. Furthermore, reading is made even more difficult by the fact that this mark overlaps with the left oblique stroke of the upsilon. According to Hiller’s reading, three additional letters are visible: a upsilon, an epsilon, and an iota, located after a natural break in the rock and written in a descending ductus.

Bibliography

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Images

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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

Download

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