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The Stone of Terpon or Pebble of Antibes (''Galet d'Antibes'') is an ancient artifact excavated near the seawall of Antibes, France (the ancient ''Antipolis'') in 1866 (()). The stone is held in the Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie adjacent to that same seawall in Antibes. The stone's inscription has been dated to between 450 - 425 BC,(()) and the object may once have marked the entrance to a brothel. ==Inscription== The stone is formed in a phallic shape (23" long, 8" thick, 73 lbs.), with a carved inscription in Ionic Greek reading: :ΤΕΡΠΩΝ ΕΙΜΙ ΘΕΑΣ ΘΕΡΑΠΩΝ ΣΕΜΝΗΣ ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣ ΤΟΙΣ ΔΕ ΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΣΑΣΙ ΚΥΠΡΙΣ ΧΑΡΙΝ ΑΝΤΑΠΟΔΟΙΗ In standard Greek orthography the text would read: :. It forms a distych in dactylic hexameter: The inscription can be roughly translated as: "I am Terpon, servant of noble Aphrodite, may Kypris return grace to those who set up (the stone)." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stone of Terpon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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