Decree honoring Diophantos
Inscription honoring the emperor Zeno
Civic Oath of Chersonesos
Decree honoring Syriskos the historian
Base of statue for Agasikles
Proxeny decree for an ambassador from Mithridates Eupator
Decree honoring ambassadors from Herakleia
Base of statue for Aristonos
Treaty of alliance with the king Pharnakes I
List of those who won sport competitions
Inscription about the tax on prostitution
Fragment of a decree about the fortress of Napites
Inscription about construction of a city gate
Dedication to the goddess Nemesis
Inscription regarding the liberation of Kalos Limen
Decree honoring the emperor Marcus Aurelius
Decree honoring Gaius Julius Satyrus
Proxeny for a citizen of Sinope
Epitaph in verse on stele for Xanthos
Inscription on the stele set up by doctor
Epitaph in verse on stele for Oinanthe
Short epitaphs
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Epitaph in verse on stele for Oinanthe
Originally published by Latyshev
Marble gravestone. Two female figures are shown standing in the niche, their faces are chopped off, and between them is a basket for needlework. The monument was found in 1890 near Kazach'ya bay.
Dates 2nd century A. D.
Тext:
"Oinanthe daughter of Glaukios.
The Muses would better glorify your beauties, the ill-starred young wife Oinanthe, having your children placed at your knees, and (sing) the beauty law of the goddess Ilithia who helps in having a child, the joyful gifts for your mother, father, and husband. But now you are sleeping on cold sands near waves of murmuring Kokytos, and incessant sound of beloved voice, with which your mother, like a bird, is mourning for you, can not wake you; you hear nothing, like a stone, but black deep streams of the Ocean are flowing around you, and the souls of the dead coming under the earth are making terrible noise; you can not understand cry of your parents nor of your husband, as you drank - alas! - from Lethe's water. What a cruel law of the blissful! Aren't the young women who die early neither the bad nor originated from petty parents but those who have the most outstanding beauty or noblest origins? So not without reason said Pythoness to men a good proverb that every gold (that is beautiful) descendent was the first to come down to Hades".
Commentary:
This epitaph in verse mentions rivers Kokytos and Lethe in the underworld kingdom of Hades, as well as the Ocean.
Pythoness was priestess and prophetess at Apollo temple at Delphi.
Translation by © N. Khrapunov.
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