Captions for wall-paintings
created: From previous publications (Roueché).
source date: Late fourth century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he

Bibliography

Illustrated description at [...], with discussion of 3 at 100-102, and further description at [...]; captions presented in [...], 25-26, whence SEG 45.2150; discussed [...], 192-193.

Βελλεροφόντηϲ

Χείμαρα

Ἕκτωρ

Ἀχιλλέυϲ

Ξάνθοϲ, Βαλίοϲ

Ϲειρῆναϲ

Εἰϲαφίκανε καὶ ἄκουσον Ὀδυσσεῦ· ὁ Σειρήνων ὅδε φθόγγοϲ τῶν ἁδινάων· Τίϲ ἀοιδῆϲ ἀκούϲαϲ παρέπλευϲε τὸν λειμῶνα

Ϲκύλλα

Πύρροϲ

Πολυξένη

Translation

[1.i]: Bellerophon; [ii]: Chimera

[2.i]: Hector; [ii]: Achilles; [iii]: Xanthos, Balios

[3.i]: Sirens; [ii]: Approach and listen, Odysseus. This is the sound of the loud sirens; who, having heard the song has sailed past the meadow?

[4]: Scylla;

[1.i]: Pyrrhus; [ii]: Polyxena

Commentary

2.iii: The horses of Achilles, Iliad 16.149, 19.400

3.ii: A close reference to Homer, ἠδ’ ὡς Σειρήνων ἁδινάων φθόγγον ἄκουσεν, Odyssey 23.326. For the meadow of the Sirens see Odyssey 12.43