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LSA-2651 Base for statue of Archelaus, worshipper of Dionysus. Lerna (Achaea). Later fourth century








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Lerna Province: Achaea Region: Greece and South Balkans (with Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace)
Details: Found in village of Myloi, close to Argos
Current Location: Lost
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Unknown Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 91 Width(cm): 35 Depth(cm): 31
Language: Greek Text Type: Verse
SUBJECT
Honorand: Archelaos Position: Religious Office-Holders Gender: Male
Awarder: wife of honorand (unnamed) and worshippers of Apollo Lyceius Position: Family Members
DATE
Earliest: 350 Latest : 400
MAIN REFERENCE
Inscriptiones Graecae, VI 666
INSCRIPTION
Text: Βάκχῳ μ[ε] Βάκχον καὶ προσυμναί[ᾳ] / θεῶι /
στάσαντο Δεοῦς ἐν κατηρεφ[εῖ] / δόμω[ι, /
(5) τὸν Ἀρχε[λά]ου πα[ῖ]δα ὁ[μ]ών[υ]-/μ[ον] πατ[ρί. /
ταὐτῷ δ[έ] μ‘ ἐξ[ῆρε] ἐν χρόνῳ δ[ά]-/μα[ρ] κλυ[τ]ῶι / (9) Βάκχον Λ[υ]αίω[ι. γῆ]ς δὲ πυρφό-/[ρ]οι[ς] θεα[ῖς] /
Φοίβῳ Λυκεί[ωι θ‘] – ο[ὕ]νεκα ἀντίτων / λ[άχ]οι - /
δά]μα[ρ με ν]εῖμε καὶ προσυ[μ-/ν]αῖος λε[ὼς /(15)
α[ὐτοῦ] τε Φοίβου [π]υρφόροι λ[υ-/κοκτόνο[υ.
 Trans: To Bacchus (= Dionysus) and to the goddess praised in hymns (= Demeter); they set me up, the bacchanal, son of Archelaus, of the same name as the father, in the roofed house of Demeter. In the same year, my consort set up me, the bacchanal, to the illustrious (god) who releases, Bacchus Lyaius; to the torchbearing goddesses of the earth (= Demeter and Kore) and to Phoebus (= Apollo) Lyceius - in order that she might receive the recompense - my consort dedicated me, together with the chanting people [= the worshippers of Demeter Proshymnia referred to in lines 1-2], and the torchbearers of that wolf-killing Phoebus.
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