Friday, October 14, 2022
Inscriptiones Graecae XIV 2424
Inscriptiones Graecae XIV 2424 = Carmina Epigraphica Graeca 400 (Antipolis, 5th century B.C.), tr. Paul Friedländer and Herbert B. Hoffleit, Epigrammata: Greek Inscriptions in Verse from the Beginnings to the Persian Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948), p. 43:
See Decourt pp. 104-108 (inscription number 84).
Another photograph, from the Musée d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Antibes:
There is an excellent discussion of the inscription in William D. Furley, "Life in a line: a reading of dedicatory epigrams," in Manuel Baumbach et al., edd., Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 151-166 (at 156-159).
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I am the Delighter, minister of the holy goddess Aphrodite;The stone, the so-called Galet de Terpon or Galet d'Antibes, from Jean-Claude Decourt, Inscriptions grecques de la France (Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2004), Plate XVII, Figure 90:
to those who have placed me here may Cypris render joy.
Τέρπων εἰμὶ θεᾶς θεράπων σεμνῆς Ἀφροδίτης·
τοῖς δὲ καταστήσασι Κύπρις χάριν ἀνταποδοίη.
Another photograph, from the Musée d'Histoire et d'Archéologie d'Antibes:
