IThera095 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 IThera095 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 inscription is located in the archaeological context called 'Agora of the Gods' by the first excavators.

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The inscription is orthograde and located within the enclosed area to the west of the Temple of Apollo Karneios. It is inscribed from top to bottom, placed vertically on the right section (approximately 30 cm in height) of a rock face situated west of inscription no. 358. The graffito ends at the lower edge of the rock and is framed between a natural fracture, which marks the upper boundary of the letters, and a deep, irregular natural groove on the left.

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Letters of the archaic alphabet of Thera: Samek: for [dz], with a protruding vertical stroke. Upsilon: single oblique bar attached to the vertical stroke (attested in nos. 351, 352). San: larger than the other letters (10 cm in height, 8 cm in width), with an elongated and prominent stroke

Line 1-2 80-100 80 (san) Interlineation line 1 to 2 Archaía Thíra 36.36349, 25.47804 7th century BCE Within the enclosed area, Inglese 2008.36.36199, 25.48064 in situ Last seen by A. Inglese in 2003 in situ

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 English Italian Ancient Greek Latin votive inscription Invocation, theonym Valentina Mignosa encoded inscription and added metadata Valentina Mignosa adapted the data to taxonomies list, as well as lists of anthroponyms and theonyms
Ζεύς
Edition after Inglese 2008

The graffito provides another attestation of the theonym Zeus within this specific sanctuary area, reinforcing the site's cultic significance. The epigraphic field, though naturally constrained, accommodates the text effectively, with the surrounding geological features subtly influencing the layout. The letterforms align with known regional paleographic trends, particularly in the rendering of upsilon and samek. The distinctive execution of san, with its greater height and width, suggests an intentional emphasis, possibly underscoring the theonym's invocation.

Inglese 2008 nr. 95 https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000793447