The Ship ‘Maria’ in Grammata, Syros (Cyclades)

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https://doi.org/10.54103/2035-4797/18005

Keywords:

Graffiti; Grammata; Syros; ships naming; ship Maria

Abstract

Among the graffiti engraved on the rocks of Grammata, Syros-Cyclades, classified as 'Christian' by age and content, four are invocations for help for the ship called ‘Maria’. After the description of the site, the history of the studies and a brief presentation of the graffiti, the problem of the proper name ‘Maria’ is faced from a linguistic and pragmatic point of view, especially in comparison with the various onomastic formular types that we find in other texts from the Cyclades, such as Agia Maria and Theotokos.

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Author Biography

Giovanna Rocca, IULM University

Giovanna Rocca is Full Professor of Linguistics, in the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation at IULM University, Milan (Italy). Her main fields of research include: Sociolinguistics, Ethnolinguistics and Text linguistics. Her studies focus mainly on classical languages. She has recently been involved in the editing of a “Digital Corpus of Archaic Latin Inscriptions” in collaboration with the Soprintendenza ai Beni archeologici of Rome.

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Published

2022-06-13

Issue

N. 29 (2021)

Section

Studies by friends and colleagues for Maria Teresa Grassi (part I)

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