Many of the inscriptions are in honour of individual priests, pyrophoroi, hieromnemones, or of distinguished Greeks unconnected with the sanctuaries; for example there was found, in association with a headless statue, the inscription shown below.
[Plate XXXII]. The upper four lines of the inscription are in the Dorian dialect, the remainder in the Ionian. The former is the dedication of the statue by the Epidaurians to a historian previously unknown to the classical student, a certain Philippos of Pergamos. The lower Ionic fragment is probably a quotation (the only one known to exist) from his writings.
PLATE XXXII—Dedication of Statue to Philippos (Cavvadias)
Supplying the lost words or letters the inscription runs as follows:—
ἄνθετο μὲν μ’ Ἐπίδαυρος Ἀριστείδαο Φίλιππον
Περγάμοθεν θείας κοίρανον ἱστορίας
ἀγλάϊσαν δ’ Ἕλλανες ἐπεὶ πολεμογράφον αὐδὰν
ἔκλαγον ἁμερίων κόσμον ἐπερχόμενος.
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