IG VII 52

A funeral inscription with a poem from Megara:

For the clever Orsippos of Megara they have erected me here,
a beautiful monument, obeying the word of Delphi.
He liberated the farthest boundaries of his fatherland,
because the enemy had cut off large parts of land.
He was the first of the Greeks to win the victory crown at Olympia
naked, since before everyone competed in loin-cloths in the stadion.

Greek

The inscription dates from the second century AD, long after Orsippos’ victory in 720 BC. It possibly replaced an older insciption, which had become illegible in the course of centuries.

© KU Leuven, 2012