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:
I am the Delighter, minister of the holy goddess Aphrodite;
to those who have placed me here may Cypris render joy.

Τέρπων εἰμὶ θεᾶς θεράπων σεμνῆς Ἀφροδίτης·
τοῖς δὲ καταστήσασι Κύπρις χάριν ἀνταποδοίη.
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:
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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