Tiro Diritto

“The God Osiris Antinous true of voice - he has become a fair-faced youth, with holiday eyes, whose heart rejoices like a hero since he has received the order of the gods at the moment of his death. One will repeat for him every ritual of the Hours of Osiris, and every ceremony as a mystery.”

- Anon., obelisk of Monto Pincio, Rome, AD 130. The inscription was composed in hieroglyphs for Emperor Hadrian to commemorate his favourite, Antinous, who drowned in the Nile.

“Antinous was a favourite of the Emperor Hadrian and died in Egypt. Hadrian honoured Antinous by building a city on the spot where he died and naming it after him; and he set up statues, or rather, sacred images of him, practically all over the world.”

- Dio Cassius (c. 155-235)

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