IThera032 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 IThera032 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 rock surface is 1.80 m high and 1.33 m long (max.).

stone rock face 180 133

The inscription runs on four lines. The drawing measures approx. 19 x 19 cm.

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Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: right stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar; Epsilon: vertical stroke extended downward, oblique strokes; Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar; Iota: featuring three bars; Lambda: angular at the top; Ny: third stroke short and divergent; Rho: rigid bowl; Koppa: vertical stroke extended into the bowl; San: used for the sibilant sound.

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2 Traces of a drawing. The rock surface is 1.80 meters high and has a maximum length of 1.33 meters. The drawing measures approximately 19 x 19 cm. Figure, animal (turtle?). Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Beginning of the 7th century BCE «supra epheborum gymnasium» Hiller36.36169, 25.48152 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

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Taxonomies for ThERA controlled values

ThERA anthroponyms authority list

ThERA theonyms authority list

Julian Calendar

 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-026, EpiLab-rtv-rub-027, EpiLab-rtv-rub-028, 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 p. 477(b) (Inglese 2008)
Εὔπονος ο̄ἶπhε Πασίοϙhος Εὔαισϙρος Κρησίλας
Hiller: Εὔπονος ὦιπhε Hiller: Πασίοϙhος Hiller: Εὔαισϙρος Hiller: Κρησίλας

The communicative context of the graffito would relate to the erotic sphere due to the presence of the verb ο̄ἶπhε in line 1. Regarding the meaning of the verb and the nature of the graffiti in which it is attested, see IThera030 commentary.

Inglese 2008 nr. 32 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.539 (= Suppl. 1411, pp. 307) https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074 Collitz, Bechtel 1884-1915 4789 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000751554