Gold tablet with Instructions for the Deceased in the Underworld
Greek, 350–300 BCE.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
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It reads:
“I (masculine) am parched with thirst and am dying; but grant me to drink
from the ever-flowing spring. On the right is a white cypress.
‘Who are you? Where are you from?’ I am a son of Earth and starry sky.
But my race is heavenly.”
Part of the practices of the Orphic Mystery Cult.
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