Thursday, October 06, 2022
Inscription on a Gemstone
Inscription on a 1st century BC gemstone (Leiden, Royal Coin Cabinet, inv. 1948), tr.
John R. Clarke, Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), p. 40:
The inscription isn't in Searchable Greek Inscriptions. In translating, I would keep Pardalas as a proper name. I don't have access to
Marianne Maaskant-Kleibrink, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems in the Royal Coin Cabinet, The Hague. The Greek, Etruscan and Roman Collections, 2 vols. (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1978).
A photograph of the gemstone:
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Leopard—drink, live in luxury, embrace!See the old Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 7299:
You must die, for time is short.
May you live life to the full, O Greek!
Παρδαλᾶ, πεῖνε, τρύφα, περιλάμβανε. θανεῖν σε δεῖ· ὁ γὰρ χρόνος ὀλίγος. Ἀχαιὶ ζήσαις.
A photograph of the gemstone:
