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| Keywords: Funerary stele Louvre N329.jpg 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 century 1 AD limestone cm 101 53 8 full form Πατρὶς μέν μοί ἐστι Λύκων όλις· εἰμὶ δ Ἀ ολλώς / ἐν Φαρίηι γαίηι θυμόν οφθίμενος / νή ιος ἡρ άσθην δ ἑκκαιδεκάτου ἐνιαυτοῦ / ἕκτον ωροσύνης μῆνα αρερχόμενος / νῦν δ Ἀϐυδηναίου τὸν Ὀσείριδος μφι ολεὐω / θῶκον καὶ φτιμένων οὐκ ἐ άτησα δόμουω / θανάρων καὶ τέκνα μεμορμένον οἶτον ἐ έσ εν / λλ οἰκεῖ μακάρων Ἠλὐσιον εδίον· ἐνθ ἅμα αισὶ θεῶν με φέρων Κυλλήνιος Ἑρμῆς / ἵδρυσε καὶ Λήθης ούκ ἔ ιον λιϐάδα grc 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 Ma patrie est Lycopolis ; je suis Apollôn ou -ôs / qui a perdu la vie sur la terre de Pharos / Pauvre enfant je fus emporté à l'âge de seize ans / au moment où je dépassais le sixième mois de mon destin prématuré / Maintenant je suis un serviteur du siège d'Osiris abydénien / et je n'ai pas foulé la demeure des morts / Même les enfants des immortels achèvent le sort fixé par le destin / mais ils habitent la plaine élyséenne des bienheureux / C'est là en compagnie des fils des dieux / que m'a conduit Hermès de Cyllène qu'il m'a établi et je n'ai pas bu l'onde du Léthé trad Louvre Institution Louvre object department Egyptian antiquities 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 object history ProvenanceEvent discovery Abydos Bernand 1969 credit line before 1857 accession number Louvre number 329 own photo date 2012-12-02 User Jastrow/cc-by-2 5 artwork license PD-old-100-1923 photo license Cc-by-2 5 other versions Roman-era Greek funerary inscriptions Steles of Roman Egypt Ancient Egyptian funerary steles East Mediterranean in the Roman Empire antiquities in the Louvre - Room 1 Taken with Nikon D300s Taken with Sigma 17-50mm F2 8 EX DC OS HSM | ||||
