Laudator Temporis Acti

John Granger Cook, Empty Tomb, Resurrection, Apotheosis (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018 = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 410), p. 227:

An inscription in Rome, for example, appears on a stone on which are depicted erotic scenes:

From Germa Hiera I, Teleistratos [sic, read Telesistratos], repose in the Isles of the Blessed; I want to use these things again! During my life this was the only gain!

Γέρμης ἐξ Ἱερῆς / Τελεσίστρατος ἐν / μακάρων νήσοις κεῖμαι, / ἔτι τῶνδε χρέος ποθέω· / τοῦτο μόνον ζῶν ἐκέρδησα.³⁷¹

³⁷¹ IGUR III, 1341, published originally by F. Cumont, Une pierre tombale érotique de Rome, AntCl 9 (1940) 5–11 (five rows of vulvae, a monstrously erect male, and below a triangle containing the letters ΔΡΜ, another vulva). Cp. the photograph and location in IGUR IV, 1341. Trans. (and discussion) by F. dell'Oro, "Anacreon, the Connoisseur of Desires." An Anacreontic Reading of Menecrates' Sepulchral Epigram (IKyzikos 18, 520 = Merkelbach/Stauber SGO 08/01/47 Kyzikos), in: Imitate Anacreon!: Mimesis, Poiesis, and the Poetic Inspiration in the Carmina Anacreonta, ed. M. Baumbach and N. Dümmler, Berlin 2014, 67–93, esp. 87. SGO is R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber, ed., Steinepigramme aus dem Griechischen Osten, 5 vols., Stuttgart et al. 1998–2004.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to see the photograph in Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae. Curavit L. Moretti. Fasciculus IV (1491-1705). Revidenda potiora (Rome: Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica, 1990), p. 167. The stone is now in Rome (Banco di Sardegna, via Boncompagni 6), according to Moretti, op. cit., p. 165.

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Thanks very much to Tim Parkin for sending me the photograph from IGUR III, 1341: