Talk:Stone of Terpon

I cannot seem to change "terpon" in the title to "Terpon." As a proper name, the T should be uppercase. Dick Kimball 20:00, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I will be in Antibes for July of 2007. If you give me until some time later (I'm scheduled for cancer surgery in August) I will try to visit the archaeology museum in Antibes and obtain first-hand corroboration of what I wrote about the Stone of Terpon. Dick Kimball 20:49, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from article to here by — BillC ^talk:

While this is about all I know about the Stone of Terpon, I will look-up references in guidebooks to the French Riviera, which is where I came upon this material originally over a decade ago. Dick Kimball 20:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From Insight Guide/The French Riviera, 1999 editiion: "...Museum of Art, History and Archaeology. Among its numerous Roman artefacts is one which gives an evocative glimpse of Antibes' past--the charming 3rd-century Roman stela to the slave child, a dancer named Septentrion, whose Latin funerary inscription reads: 'To the Manes of the child Septentrion aged twelve who at the theatre at Antibes on two days danced and gave pleasure.'" Admittedly barely a passing similarity to the Stone of Terpon, but at least not the censored pablum of most guidebooks.

I think this is a stub, not a speedy. I have removed the {{speedy}} tag.--Anthony.bradbury 21:03, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have made inquiry on the French version of Wikipedia for information and clarification. If this turns out to be either an urban legend or a garbled varsion of that headstone to a twelve-year-old dancing boy (as mentioned above), I want to remove it. On the other hand, it would make an interesting factoid if true, especially since present-day Antibes where I have a second home is so prim, staid, and stuffy. Dick Kimball 19:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have just returned from Antibes. There is a stone artifact in the archaeology museum that fits my original entry EXCEPT that is is not labeled Stone of Terpon but «galet» d'Antibes; galet is French for pebble, although the size appears to be as given in my original entry and the mass of 73 Lbs. seems reasonable. There is also what appears to be a marble plaque embedded in the side wall of the Antibes city hall (mairie) that corresponds to the description in my entry quoted from the 1999 Insight Guide, above; keeping this ancient artifact outdoors, exposed to acid rain, struck me as curiously irresponsible. Dick Kimball 14:13, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the entry for Galet de Terpon in the French Wikipedia:

Le galet de Terpon est un vestige archéologique retrouvé à Antibes en France.

Y est gravé dans un dialecte grec "Je suis Terpon, serviteur de l'auguste Aphrodite, que Cypris accorde sa faveur à ceux qui m'ont confié cette charge". Une copie se trouve au Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie d'Antibes.

Which I hazard to translate:

The Stone of Terpon is an archaeological relic found at Antibes in France.

It is engraved in a Greek dialect "I am Terpon, servant of the majestic Aphrodite, that Cypris grants its favour to those [to] whom he entrusted this charge." A copy is [to be] found at the Museum of History and Archaeology of Antibes.

Dick Kimball (talk) 19:44, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]