Plaster Cast: Gravestone Inscription
1900.11.0103
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Basic Information
Artifact Identification | Plaster Cast: Gravestone Inscription (1900.11.0103) |
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Classification/ Nomenclature |
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Artist/Maker | Emile Gillieron & Fils, Athens. |
Geographic Location | |
Period/Date | Archaic, 650 - 550 BCE |
Culture | Ancient Greek |
Physical Analysis
Dimension 1 (Length) | 92.5 cm |
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Dimension 2 (Width) | 63.5 cm |
Dimension 3 (Height) | 5.7 cm |
Weight | 25,200 g |
Measuring Remarks | None |
Materials | Plaster |
Manufacturing Processes | Cast |
Munsell Color Information | waived |
Research Remarks
Published Description | N/A |
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Description | Plaster cast of the front face of a large flat slab of dark grey volcanic stone, with at least nine, possibly ten names inscribed in total on its four sides in the early Theran alphabet: three words at the middle of the upper face, with two more crowded near the edges at left and bottom; five more are inscribed around each of the three low vertical sides of the slab. The text occupying the center of the upper face is (IG XII 3.762a). The letters are between ?? and ?? cm. high. The letters of the epichoric Theran alphabet are transliterated as follows: |
Comparanda | Spurlock Museum: 1900.11.0099, 1900.11.0102 IG XII 3.762b, 762c, 762d (the other three sides of the gravestone with the fourth, d, read as Orthokles) and 765, 771, 781, 783. |
Bibliography | Fraser, Peter M. and Elaine Matthews, eds. 1987. A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, vol. 1, The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica. 1994. Oxford: The Clarendon Press for the British Academy. Guarducci, M. Epigrafia Greca, vol. I (Rome 1987) 352–53, with figs. 181a and b. Jeffery, Lilian H. 1961. The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece. Oxford, 317–318, 323 no. 5 (additional bibliography), pl. 61 no. 5. = Jeffery, Lilian H., and A. W. Johnston. 1990. Revised edition with a supplement. Oxford, Touratsoglou, I. et al. The Greek Script (Athens 2001) fig. 24 (color photograph). IG XII 3 = Inscriptiones Graecae, vol. XII, part 3, Inscriptiones Symes, Teutlussae, Teli, Nisyri, Astypalaeae, Anaphes, Therae et Therasiae, Pholegandri, Cimoli, Meli (1898–1904), no. 762a |
Artifact History
Archaeological Data | The inscription was found about 4.5 km. above the modern village of Kamari, near the remains of the ancient polis of Thera on the Mesovouno ridge separated from mount Profitis Elias by a lower ridge, Sellada (saddle), with the graves on and around this ridge. Both the cemetery and town have been partially excavated. |
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Credit Line/Dedication | N/A |
Reproduction | Yes |
Reproduction Information | Original displayed in the Athens Epigraphical Museum. Reproduction probably made by the staff of the Athens National Archaeological Museum, perhaps Emile Gillieron & Fils, Athens. See also 1900.11.0099 and 1900.11.0102. |