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Delphic Letters

A new exhibition, showcasing epigraphs and their importance for the Delphi sanctuary has been inaugurated at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi.

The exhibition Delphic Letters: Journey through the old epigraphs of the pan-Hellenic sanctuary features 40 stone steles dating from the Archaic period to the first Christian years.

The exhibits, selected by the French epigraphist and Sorbonne University Professor Dominique Mulliez, are only a small part of the epigraphs discovered in the Delphi area, but provide a representative picture of the different inscription categories.

Inscriptions to cities and kings, to Pythian Games athletes, as well as resolutions of the Delphic Amphictyony, the league of city-states protecting the sanctuary, are on display.

The new exhibition also features the inscription of the famous maxim Know Thyself, which figured at the architrave of the Temple of Apollo forecourt.

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