AIUK9 Appendix 1 Dedication to Pan and the Nymphs

Dedication to Pan and the Nymphs

AIUK 9 (Brocklesby Park) Appendix 1 Date: ca. 350-330 BC

Relief . . . son of -(i?)ppos of Phlya, dedicated (this).^[1]

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Greek text

References:

AIUK 9 (Brocklesby Park) Appendix 1 (Translated text) (AIO) (AIUK)

IG II² 4886 (PHI)

IG II³ 4 1430 (IG Online)

Translation by: Peter Liddel, Polly Low

AIO Images: 1

Monument type: Plaque

Inscription type: Dedication (private, Pan), Dedication (private, Nymphs)

Findspot: Acropolis (?) (Brocklesby no. 28)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This marble tablet with sculpture in relief represents Hermes leading three Nymphs towards a group of worshippers. Behind them, at the extreme right side of the scene, is the head of a personification of a fountain or river (perhaps the river-god Acheloos, the father of the Nymphs: Pl. Phdr. 263d); above them sits Pan, depicted with beard, pointed ears and goat’s legs. The inscription appears on the lower frame of the relief.

Pan and the Nymphs were associated with (and worshipped at) cave sites. In Menander’s Dyskolos, Pan refers to the Nymphs who “share my shrine” (line 37), and at least nine caves in Athens and Attica can be linked with worship of Pan and the Nymphs. The precise findspot of this object is unknown, but it is possible that our relief originally stood in, or just outside, one of the many caves of Pan and the Nymphs in Athens.

For another dedication to the Nymphs, made by a group of “launderers”, depicting in relief Pan, the Nymphs, Hermes and the personified representation of Acheloos, found close to the river Ilissos (the location of a famous sanctuary of Pan and the Nymphs), see IG II³ 4, 635.

The dedication was evidently made by a demesman of Phlya whose name is lost, save for the second element of his patronymic.

This tablet, the current whereabouts of which are unknown, is attested only by way of the illustration which appears in the Museum Worsleyanum (2 volumes, first published 1798 and 1803). All editions of the text and discussions of the relief are based on this depiction.

For fuller discussion of this monument, see AIUK 9 (Brocklesby), Appendix. On the Attic inscriptions at Brocklesby see AIUK 9.

Added: 3 Nov 2020
Updated: 8 Jul 2021
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