Nikomedia (Bithynia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), imperial era
IDionysosJ 73
= SEG 34 (1984), no. 1266
= PHI 279822
= AGRW ID# 15791
The reference to dancing for Dionysos may imply participation in a group of initiates in Dionysos' mysteries (see the comments on GRA 100).
I, Dion, while alive, am a concern to you, Dionysos, both when I dance with the children and at the banquets (symposia), when I hold the nectar of Bromios (“Thunderer”). But now I have set you up even by my tomb, at my side, for all to see, so that even when I am dead and existing in the future, I might see you.
Translation by: Harlandσοί, Διόνυσε, ǀ Δίων ζωὸς μετ̣ὰ̣ ǀ παισὶ χορεύων ǀ συνποσίοισι ǀǀ μέλω νέκταρ ǀ ἔχων Βρομίου· ǀ νῦν δέ σε καὶ παρὰ ǀ σῆμ’, ἐσορᾶν, ǀ ἵδρυσα παρά μμε̣ ǀǀ [ὄ]φρα καὶ ἂν φθίμενο[ς] ǀ καὶ ’σόμενός ǀ σε βλέπω.
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