Drink, may you live well always.The cup: See P.J. Sijpesteijn, "Christian Mottos on Vessels?" Journal of Glass Studies 30 (1988) 123-125.
πίε, ζήσαις καλῶς ἀεί.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Saturday, October 04, 2025
Inscription on a Reticulated Glass Cup
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum Pannonicarum 122 (from Pécs, Hungary, late 4th-mid. 5th century AD, now at Cologne, Römisch-Germanisches Museum im Belgischen Haus):
