Thursday, July 07, 2022
Epitaph of Chrysogonos
Inscriptiones Graecae XII 4 (Cos, 2nd-3rd century A.D.; my translation):
I don't have access to Mario Segre, Iscrizioni di Cos, Vols. 1: Testo and 2: Tavole (Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1993 = Monografie della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, 6). Mario Segre died at Auschwitz at the age of 39 in 1944, with his wife and young son.
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Here lies a servant of the Nymphs, Chrysogonos by name,Photograph of the inscription, from Rudolf Herzog, Koische Forschungen und Funde (Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung / Theodor Weicher, 1899), Tafel VI, 2:
saying to every passerby: drink, you see the end.
83 years.
οὔνομα Χρυσόγονος Νυνφῶν λάτρις ἐνθάδε κεῖτα[ι],
παντὶ λέγων παρόδῳ· πεῖνε, βλέπις τὸ τέλος.
ἐτῶν πγ'.
1 Νυνφῶν Herzog: ΝΟΝΥΦΩΝ lapis: μακάρων dub. Peek
