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English: Funerary stele of Apollōn showing the deceased in Egyptian dress led by Anubis to Osiris. Hieroglyphic inscription to Osiris in the upper part and Greek inscription claiming the deceased to be a follower of Anubis of Abydos.
Date 1st century AD
date QS:P571,+050-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium limestone
medium QS:P186,Q23757
Dimensions height: 101 cm (39.7 in); width: 53 cm (20.8 in); depth: 8 cm (3.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,101U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,53U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q19675
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N 329
Object history discovered (Abydos)
(?) (Bernand 1969)
Credit line before 1857
date QS:P,+1857-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1857-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Inscriptions [Πατρὶς μέν μοί ἐστι Λύκων πόλις· εἰμὶ δ’ Ἀπολλ[ώς], / ἐν Φαρίηι γαίηι θυμόν ἀποφθίμενος / νήπιος ἡρπάσθην δ’ ἑκκαιδεκάτου ἐνιαυτοῦ, / ἕκτον ἀωροσύνης μῆνα παρερχόμενος. / νῦν δ’ Ἀϐυδηναίου τὸν Ὀσείριδος ἀμφιπολεὐω / θῶκον καὶ φτιμένων οὐκ ἐπάτησα δόμουω. / ἀθανάρων καὶ τέκνα μεμορμένον οἶτον ἐπέσ[πεν], / ἀλλ’ οἰκεῖ μακάρων Ἠλὐσιον πεδίον· ἐνθ’ ἅμα παισὶ θεῶν με φ[έρ]ων Κυλλήνιος Ἑρμῆς / ἵδρυσε καὶ Λήθης ούκ ἔπιον λιϐάδα.] [My homeland is Lycopolis. I am Apollo / and I have lost my life in the land of Pharos. / I was still a child, when I was kidnapped at the age of sixteen and a half, / after having reached the sixth month of my premature fate. / Now I serve the throne of Osiris from Abydos / and I have not set foot / inside the mansion of the dead. The sons of the immortals face a predestined death, as well / but they dwell in the Elysian plain of the Blessed. / Hermes Cyllenius took me there, among the sons of the gods, / he put me up and I did not drink from the stream of Lethe (trans. Jiménez San Cristóbal)]
References
  • Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 11517
  • A. I. Jiménez San Cristóbal, “Do not drink the water of forgetfulness” in Tracing Orpheus: Studies of Orphic Fragments (M. Herrero de Jáuregui (et al.)), 2011, pp.167–9
  • André Bernand, Greek Inscriptions, 1969, pp.294–303, no.73
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