The following translation was made by Aileen Ryu and Owen Eldridge as part of an ancient Greek course at The Lawrenceville School in 2024-2025. It was reviewed by Krateros Project Co-Directors Aaron Hershkowitz and Angelos Chaniotis.
Here we dined together
And made libations together.
By the gods and heroes,
whoever you are holding this land,
may you never move
Anything of it; and whosoever
Should either deface or remove
The likenesses and honors of
These statues here, may the earth
Not bear him fruit nor the sea
Be navigable and may they perish
Terribly with their family. And whosoever
Should guard the place and continually
Honor and strengthen the customs,
May there be many good things for this man,
Both for him and his descendants.
And one should neither outrage nor mistreat
nor knock off nor break in pieces nor confuse anything
of the appearance and the form;
and if anyone should do
thusly, may the selfsame curse
also fall upon them.
Notes from Krateros 