IThera016 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 IThera016 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 graffito is placed outside the enclosed area, east of the entrance to it.

stone rock face 110 70

The inscription runs in an orthogonal direction (except for the retrograde iota). The text is fairly legible and is set within a rectangular shape (placed about 8 cm from the top edge of the rock surface), as seen in other cases of anthroponyms in the same area (e.g., nos. 542 and 567). The rectangle itself measures 43 cm in width by 30 cm in height. The letters vary in height: beta at 18 cm, rho at 15 cm, upsilon at 12 cm, and san at 12 cm.

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Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: beta: both bowls open. iota: with three rounded strokes. rho: with a rigid bowl. san: for the sibilant sound. upsilon: with diverging oblique strokes.

Line 1-2 120-180 Interlineation line 1 to 2 Frame, ractangular. Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Second half of the 7th - beginning of the 6th century BCE «ante portam aulae». Hiller, Suppl. p. 86; the editor read the inscription again in 1903, Hiller Suppl. p. 29136.36200, 25.48072 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

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 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin votive inscription Anthroponym 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 no. 29 (Inglese 2008). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission
Βῖρυς
Hiller: Βίρυς

In the first reading of IG XII 3.365, Hiller identified the fourth letter as iota, interpreting the graffito as the name of a deity, Biride (for Iris, with the Laconian spelling of beta for digamma), worshipped at Amyclae. However, in the Suppl., the editor noted that the fourth letter appears to be upsilon, confirmed by autopsy, which suggests the inscription refers to an anthroponym. This name, though attested twice more on the island (with lacunae in both cases for the first letter), is not otherwise known in Greece.

Inglese 2008 nr. 16 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.365 (e Suppl.) https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074 Hiller 1897 Suppl. p. 291 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863072 Collitz, Bechtel 1884-1915 4722 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000751554