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    "url": "https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/descriptions/2124/?format=api",
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        "code": "eng",
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    "created_at": "2024-04-05T16:45:06.292861Z",
    "updated_at": "2025-01-22T10:59:53.821466Z",
    "description": "A composition in verse dedicated to the shield represents a remarkable occurrence compared to votive inscriptions. Inscribed shields returned from excavations, mostly tithes of war booty, usually convey nothing more than the name of the dedicator and that of the defeated people (see Lazzarini 1976, n° 900, 958, 961, 968, 973, 978, 980). It remains ambiguous whether the epigram ἐπὶ τῇ ἀσπίδι (on the shield), mentioned by Pausanias V 10.4, was engraved directly onto the shield offered by the Spartans to the temple of Zeus at Olympia as a tithe for their victory at Tanagra (458/457 BC), or on a nearby object (see Zizza 2006, 160-166). \r\nConversely, among the epigrams in the Anthology that focus on military equipment, very few concern the public dedication of spoils of war; most, like the 'anacreontic', represent the much less documented custom of individually dedicating one's own weapons. - M. Legnini"
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