IThera029 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 IThera029 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

stone rock face

Hiller transcribed the inscription in three lines. By the time of the autopsy in 2002, the text was barely legible through direct examination. The ductus of the first two words of line 1 follows the upper edge of the rock before continuing with an undulating course across the entire surface. The writing field measures approximately 1.70 m in length and 0.80 m in height.

chiselled

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: extended vertical stroke, oblique bars. Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota: three-bar form. Lambda: sharp angle at the top. Mu: fourth bar shorter. Ny: short and widely spaced third bar. Pi: hook-shaped. Rho: round bowl. Rho: rigid bowl. Koppa: vertical stroke extending into the bowl. San: used for a sibilant sound. Different hands can be identified.

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2

Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Beginning of the 7th century BCE found near the gymnasium; Hiller read the inscription again in 1902 (Suppl. p. 307)36.36167, 25.48153 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ; rubbing (due to the graffito's size, the rubbing had to be taken in multiple segments).

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 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin Erotic text Erotic text 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 Composite image created from separate rubbings of the same inscription (rubbings inv. nos. EpiLab-rtv-rub-029, EpiLab-rtv-rub-030, EpiLab-rtv-rub-031, made in October 2003). © Greek Ministry of Culture / Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades. Reproduction authorized for this use only. Any further use requires permission Apograph (Inglese 2008, fig. no. 11)
Πhειδιπίδας ο̄ἶπhε Τιμαγόρας καὶ Ἐνπhέρης καὶ ἐγο̄ιπh Ἔνπυλος τάδε πόρνος Ἐνπεδοκλῆς ἐνεϙόπτετο τάδε ϙο̄ρκhε͂το μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλο̄
Hiller: Πhειδιππίδας ὦιπhε. Τιμαγόρας καὶ Ἐνπhέρης καὶ ἐγὤιπhομες Hiller: Ἔνπυλος τάδε πόρνος Hiller: Ἐνπεδοκλῆς ἐνεϙόπτετο τάδε ϙὠρκhεῖτο μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω

The context points to an erotic sphere. Scholarly discussion has focused on the meaning of the graffiti, particularly regarding the presence of the verb οἴφω. Some scholars (Brelich 1969; Patzer 1982; Sergent 1984; 1986) interpret it within an initiatory framework, while others (Marrou 1975; Dover 1978; 1988; Bain 1991) see it as having merely an obscene connotation.

Inglese 2008 nr. 29 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 Schwyzer 1923 p. 108 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000778252 1904 XII.3.536 (e Supl.) https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074 Roehl 1882 455 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000775513 Boeckh 1836 55-57; 85 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/002003676 Collitz, Bechtel 1884-1915 4787 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000751554 Brelich 1969 Patzer 1982 Sergent 1984 Sergent 1986 Marrou 1975 Dover 1978 Dover 1988 Bain 1991