IThera043 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 IThera043 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 (with the exception of iota in ἐπί and in Hερμαίο).

chiselled

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Epsilon: vertical stroke protruding at the bottom, oblique bars. Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Eta: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Iota: featuring three bars. Rho: angular bowl. San: used for the sibilant sound.

Line 1-2 Interlineation line 1 to 2 Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 Archaic period Hiller 1896.36.36162, 25.48129 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 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
Ἐπὶ Δυμᾶνος τοῦ Ηερμαίου ἀπώρεκσ’ ἁιή ΚΣ

On the island, there are other compound names with Ἑρμ- as the first element, written both with and without initial vocalic aspiration. This is one of the rare cases of a patronymic. The proper name Δυμᾶν is known only in this Theran instance and recalls the Dorian tribe of the Dimani.

Inglese 2008 nr. 43 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 Boeckh 1836 55-57ff. https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/002003676 Collitz, Bechtel 1884-1915 4796 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000751554 1904 XII.3.550 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074