Dedication of a statue of Dionysos
created: Transcription from the photograph (Reynolds)
source date: Probably Augustan
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Ποσειδώνιος Ποσειδωνίω ἱερατεύων Διόνυσον χαριδώταν

Translations

Posidonios son of Posidonios,serving as priest, gave the statue of Dionysos, giver of joy.

Poseidonio, figlio di Poseidonio, sacerdote, dedicò una statua di Dionyso, « donatore di gioia ».

Commentary

All details are taken from Oliverio. For the head, see Oliverio, loc.cit., fig. 45.

Line 3: this epithet for Dionysos is found in Plutarch: so Plutarch, Vita Antonii 24, 3: Διόνυσον αὐτὸν ἀνακαλουμένων Χαριδότην καὶ μειλίχιον (at Perseus), but is said by Eustathius to originate with Homer's description of the god: οὗ ἕνεκεν καὶ χαριδότης Διόνυσος, ἐξ Ὁμήρου γενομένης καὶ τῷ τοιούτῳ ἐπιθέτῳ ἀρχῆς, ὃς χάρμα βροτοῖς ἐνταῦθα ἔφη τὸν Διόνυσον (Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 3, 654). it is also applied to other gods: for Hermes, see Homer, Hymn, 18,12 (at Perseus) and IG II(2) 3664 (available at PHI 5948).