Delphic maxim
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second century CE
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Bibliography

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Γνῶθι σαυτόν

Translations

Know yourself!

Commentary

For the altar see Pernier, loc.cit., 61f. He dated the balustrade to the IV cent. BCE; the inscription must, we think have been added later, probably in the Antonine period, to judge from the letter-forms.

One of the Delphic Maxims, which have been found inscribed at several locations - most remarkably at Ai Khanoum, in Afghanistan (see L. Robert, 'De Delphes à l'Oxus', CRAI, 1968, 416-457 (available at Persée). See γνῶθι σαυτόν at Rome IGUR 1642 and 1643 (PHI 189269, 189270) and at Pergamon , (PHI 316594).