IThera023 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 IThera023 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, which was not found during Inglese's survey, is described by Hiller as orthograde and consisting of a single line. In the apograph, the editor also records a few surviving letters from a second line but does not propose any reading. Line 1 features the epithet of Zeus Hikesios, likely followed by the beginning of an anthroponym, presumably that of the dedicator.

stone rock face

The inscription is located on the same rock face as no. 582, at a distance of approximately 85 cm. It is still identifiable but somewhat difficult to read, even through the rubbing, especially in its final section. The koppa (9 cm) is written without the extension in the bowl, but there is a trace of an internal dot, likely left by the tool used to engrave the circle. The omicron (approximately 4 cm) and the rho (12 cm) are distinguishable, while the upsilon (10 cm) and the san are more difficult to read.

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Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: regular bars, oblique crossbar; Koppa: lacking the extension within the bowl; Omicron: smaller than the other letters; Rho: round bowl; San: used as a sibilant

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2 There are numerous square holes, similar to those found inside and outside the fenced area to the west of the Temple of Apollo Karneios. No traces of graffiti appear to have survived, probably due to the erosion of the stone. The graffito is enclosed within a rectangle, with its lower side coinciding with the bottom edge of the rock surface, while the upper side is a line of about 33 cm, and the right side is a vertical stroke of 7 cm. Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Archaic period «infra epheborum gymnasium in clivo montis urbani». Hiller, Suppl. p. 29236.36149, 25.48188 non vidi (lost?)

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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
hικέσιος Ουνο (Hiller)

The graffito was not located during the survey conducted by Inglese in 2002–2003. According to Hiller, the inscription was preceded by a few surviving letters, although he does not propose a reading. Line 1 contains the epithet of Zeus, Hikesios, probably followed by the beginning of a personal name, likely that of the dedicator. The epithet also appears in IG XII.3.403. See nos. 350 and 351 for other occurrences of Zeus in the context of the Agora of the Gods, even if only invoked through epithets. Supplication was a “more urgent request for help,” (Bettinetti , pp. 172 ff.), generally performed by falling at the feet of the person approached as a hiketes, embracing their knees, and touching their chin or hand. The scholar adds that this rituality was the same in religious contexts, particularly in the veneration of cult statues. The hiketeia ritual required direct physical contact. The ritual “was associated with the cult statue through a series of gestures and attitudes, such as running and throwing oneself at its feet, kneeling, sitting beside it, or embracing the divine image.” These details may provide insight into the type of rituality linked, even in Thera, to the hikesios graffiti that feature adjacent cuttings, which may have served as receptacles for some form of marker of the deity to whom the supplication was addressed.

Inglese 2008 nr. 23 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.402 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074 Collitz, Bechtel 1884-1915 4731 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000751554