Epigram for Olympios - commentary (E53 in Voskos, 1997)

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Project Information

Name: EAGLE Project Europeana
Principle investigator: S. Hermon
Collaborators: V. Vassallo, E. Christophorou
Rights: The Cyprus Institute - STARC
Start date: April 2013
End date: March 2016
Country: Cyprus
Project info: http://www.eagle-network.eu/

Description of Collection

Name: Archaia Kypriaki Grammateia
Country: Cyprus
Language: Ancient Greek
Type: Epigraphic collection
Description: Archaia Kypriaki Grammateia is a corpus of Ancient texts that includes a wide range of literary genres such as epic, lyric and dramatic poetry, epigrams inscribed on stone, prose, medical and philosophical texts and covers the ancient Cypriot literary production in a time span of circa thirteen centuries.
Start date: 7th century BC
End date: 5th-6th century AD
Rights: The A.G. Leventis Foundation

Inscription »

Title: Epigram for Olympios - commentary (E53 in Voskos, 1997)
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Description: The commentary of the epigram E53 (in Voskos, 1997), known as the epigram for Olympios, is composed of 6 pages. The text is composed of three elegiac couplets in Homeric style, carved on a white marble plaque, mutilated on the right side. The inscription was found in August 1955, paved in the east portico of the Salamis Gymnasium. The inscription is dated to the 5th century A.D. and it refers to the reconstruction of the baths and to the construction of the gardens by Olympios, son of Antiochos.
Link: http://akg.cyi.ac.cy/el/2-%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1/b-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B9/%CE%B553
Metre: T

Bibliography »

Authors: Voskos, A.
Title: Αρχαία Κυπριακή Γραμματεία: 2. Επίγραμμα
Date: 1997
Language: Gr
Type: Book
Volume: 2
Pagination: 415-420 (philological commentary)
Place of publication: Nicosia
Publisher: The A.G. Leventis Foundation
Editors: A. Voskos
Series_editors: Patroclos Stavrou
Digital library: Archaia Kypriaki Grammateia Digital Corpus (AKGDC)
Library url: http://akg.cyi.ac.cy
Keywords: Cypriot inscriptions, epigrams

Image Properties

Name: E53 commentary
Type: JPEG Image
Width: 582 pixels
Height: 826 pixels
Resolution: 300 dpi
Size: 146 KB
Description: The images show the commentary of the dedicatory epigram E53 (in Voskos, 1997).
Shown at: http://akg.cyi.ac.cy/el/2-%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1/b-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%B9-%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B9/%CE%B553
Rights: The Cyprus Institute - STARC / The A.G. Leventis Foundation