IThera093 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 IThera093 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 is located south of the Gymnasium of the Ephebes, near the southern outer section of a circular building constructed with the same Archaic technique as the enclosed area west of the Temple of Apollo Karneios. To the right of the vertical surface bearing the inscription, the rock is irregular, with three visible cuttings and a fourth near the lower edge of the horizontal plane.

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The inscription is retrograde, except for the iota. It is engraved along the lower edge of a rock surface, shaped to form a vertical wall that extends horizontally beyond its lower boundary.

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Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Alpha: right stroke widely spaced, slightly oblique bar. Iota: three-bars shape. Omicron: smaller than the other letters. Koppa: vertical stroke extending into the bowl. San: used for a sibilant sound.

Line 1-2 40-90 Interlineation line 1 to 2 To the right of the vertical wall on which the inscription is placed, the rock features three recesses; a fourth is near the lower edge of the horizontal surface. Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 6th century BCE To the southeast of the circular building near the Gymnasium of the Ephebes, Inglese 2008.36.36165, 25.48149 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

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 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
Ϙοτίας
Edition after Inglese 2008. Possible interpretations could be Ϙοττίας, Ϙο̄τίας, Ϙο̄ττίας.

The inscription likely records a personal name, possibly Ϙο̄τίας, where the omicron may function as omega or indicate a short vowel. The paleographic features, particularly the koppa with its extended stroke, align with other local inscriptions. As in other cases, the inscription is retrograde except for the iota, a feature that seems to be part of the area’s writing habit (or perhaps its alphabetic tradition).

Inglese 2008 nr. 93 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447