Thursday, July 07, 2022

 

Epitaph of Chrysogonos

Inscriptiones Graecae XII 4 (Cos, 2nd-3rd century A.D.; my translation):
Here lies a servant of the Nymphs, Chrysogonos by name,
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
Photograph of the inscription, from Rudolf Herzog, Koische Forschungen und Funde (Leipzig: Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung / Theodor Weicher, 1899), Tafel VI, 2:
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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