IThera003 Alessandra Inglese Alessandra Inglese 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 ISicily EpiDoc encoding model and validation framework adapted from ISicily ThERA (Theran Epigraphic Rubbings Archive) project IThera003 10.5281/zenodo.17448895 9791298596405 Licensed under a Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0 licence. Greece Santorini Ancient Thera Archaeological site of Ancient Thera Ancient Greek

The inscription was located in the archaeological context called 'Agora of the Gods' by the first excavators.

stone rock face

chiselled

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: The graffito is probably lost. Hiller's scant evidence suggests that it was legible in the first three letters, written backwards. Letters: samek: for [dz], with a protruding vertical stroke upsilon: with a single oblique bar superimposed on the vertical stroke, as in the inscription no. 351 (IThera002), relating to the same deity.

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2

Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Archaic period «Intra aedificium perantiquum, quod prope Apollinis Carnei templum meridiem fere versus situm est». Hiller, Suppl. p. 8636.36198, 25.48064 Non vidi

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 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin votive inscription Invocation, theonym Valentina Mignosa encoded inscription and added metadata Valentina Mignosa adapted the data to taxonomies list, as well as lists of anthroponyms and theonyms
Ζεύς
Hiller: Ζεύς

Zeus

The graffito is likely lost, but based on Hiller's limited observations, the first three letters of the inscription were readable in retrograde. The paleographic features include the use of samek for the [dz] sound and an upsilon with a single oblique stroke attached to the vertical line. These characteristics are similar to those found in inscription no. 351, also dedicated to the same deity, Zeus. For more information on the general archaeological context and other attestations of Zeus, refer to inscriptions nos. 350 and 351.

Inglese 2008 nr. 3 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.352 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074 Hiller 1904 149