IThera004 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 IThera004 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 is located in the archaeological context called 'Agora of the Gods' by the first excavators. The text is on the rock floor, which forms the cobbled level, enclosed in the shape of a horseshoe by polygonal walls. This complex is located to the west of the temple of Apollo Carnaeus, from which it is separated by the main road.

stone rock face

The text is located on an inclined plane within the enclosed area.

chiselled

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: interrupted vertical stroke, diagonal bars; samek: for [dz], with a protruding vertical stroke; ypsilon: with both diagonal bars joining the vertical one.

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2 There is a square hole carved under the name of the deity. Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Late 8th - early 7th century B.C. «Intra aedificium perantiquum, quod prope Apollinis Carnei templum meridiem fere versus situm est». Hiller, Suppl. p. 8636.36201, 25.48062 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

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ThERA anthroponyms authority list

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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 Face of inscribed stone Photograph (Inglese 2008 no. 19). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission
Ζεύς
Hiller: Ζεύς

Zeus

The graffito, the first three letters of which are still legible, is written from right to left and is located within the perimeter. For the archaeological context and other references to Zeus, see IThera001 and IThera002 and Inglese 2008, p. 140. It is worth noting the presence of a square hole carved under the name of the deity.

Inglese 2008 nr. 4 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.353 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074 Hiller 1904 149