IThera042 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 IThera042 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

The graffito is probably lost. According to Hiller it would run on two lines with an orthograde orientation.

chiselled

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: regular bars, horizontal crossbar. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota: vertical stroke. Mu: first and fourth bars of equal length. Sigma: featuring four divergent bars.

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2

Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Mid of the 5th century BCE beyond the Gymnasium of the Ephebes, final part of the south promontory, Hiller36.36149, 25.48188 non vidi (lost?)

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Taxonomies for ThERA controlled values

ThERA anthroponyms authority list

ThERA theonyms authority list

Julian Calendar

 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin unknown function Valentina Mignosa encoded inscription and added metadata Valentina Mignosa adapted the data to taxonomies list, as well as lists of anthroponyms and theonyms
ς ἠμὶ πᾶσι καλός

The graffito is likely lost. The formula has no known parallels at Thera, nor is the adjective kalos attested in the context of the Agora of the Gods. It is worth noting the use of a closed eta for η in the first-person form εἰμί. The only indicator for a more precise dating is Hiller’s apograph, which displays a later-style palaeography. On this basis, a date around the mid-5th century BCE can therefore be suggested.

Inglese 2008 nr. 42 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.549 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074