IThera081 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 IThera081 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 inscription, still readable, is retrograde and is located at the bottom right of the same rocky surface as inscription no. 537, 18 cm away from it and 10 cm from the lower edge of the rock. The inscription measures 19 cm in length. The height of the letters, with a slightly descending ductus, varies from 4 cm to 10 cm.

chiselled

Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: left stroke divergent, diagonal crossbar. Kappa: oblique bars with different attachment points. Aspiration: represented as a closed rectangular with orizontal crossbar. Omicron: with an internal dot, smaller than the other letters. Rho: angular bowl.

Line 1-2 40-100 Interlineation line 1 to 2 Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 7th century BCE «infra n. 537», Hiller 1896, Suppl. p. 307.36.36170, 25.48150 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

Encoded following the latest EpiDoc guidelines

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 Face of inscribed stone
Κhάρο̄ν
Edition after Inglese 2008

The name Kharon (Χάρων) is rather frequent in Greece; chronologically relevant parallels include a 7th-century BCE attestation from Paros, while in Cyrene there are four attestations dating to the 4th-3rd century BCE.

Inglese 2008 nr. 81 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447 1904 XII.3.1410 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000863074