IThera091

Findspot and Location

  • Country: Greece
  • Region: Santorini
  • Settlement: Ancient Thera
  • Repository: Archaeological site of Ancient Thera

Support

Material: stone.
Object type: rock face.

Layout

According to Hiller’s indications, the graffito is orthograde; it has not been located and is likely lost. From the editor’s apograph, it is evident that the letters do not have the same height, with san being larger than the others.

Execution: chiselled.

Palaeography

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Koppa: vertical stroke extended within the bowl Omicron: smaller than the other letters San: used for a sibilant sound

Provenance and Discovery

Place:Archaía Thíra (36.36349, 25.47804)

Date:Archaic period

Findspot:«proxime infra n. 579», Hiller 1899

Coordinates:36.36177, 25.48087

Last recorded location: non vidi (lost?)

Edition


Σάλαϙος

Apparatus


Edition after Hiller 1899

Commentary

The name is known in only one instance in Athens in the form Σάλαξ. It could also be a genitive form, although the thematization of names ending in a guttural is not uncommon.

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

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