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grbs-16994	Scicolone, Federica	The Chest of Cypselus and the Temple of Apollonis at Cyzicus: Showing and Telling in Literary Inscriptions	2024	27	.pdf	application/pdf	10115	349	53	By “literary inscriptions” I intend texts that can be interpreted either as originally epigraphic texts, which were later transmitted in literary form, or epigrams written as if they were originally inscribed, whereas they could be literary compositions from the start.5 This paper revisits through a linguistic lens two groups of such epigrams: those originally inscribed on the Chest of Cypselus, from the sixth century B.C., which have reached us through Pausanias’ account of this artwork (5.17.5–5.19.10); and selected cases from Book 3 of the Palatine Anthology, which collects the epigrams accompanying the reliefs in the otherwise un- attested temple of Apollonis at Cyzicus, possibly dating to the second century B.C., although scholars generally agree on a much later date for the epigrams.6 Linguistic strategies for pointing to extra-textual visual referents, alongside allusive features, can be employed in Greek epigram to invoke lost referents (i.e. artefacts that originally existed, but disappeared with the passage of time) and imaginary referents, which never existed and are the pro- 1 M. J. Squire, “Making Myron’s Cow Moo?	cache/grbs-16994.pdf	txt/grbs-16994.txt