ISic030009: Lead defixio
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bettarini, but with minor revision of the line numbering of the recto (side a). ;
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Physical description
Support
- Description
- Lamina of oval shape.
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- fragments
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: 5.3 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Opisthographic. Written circularly on the recto (a), left-right on the verso (b).
- Text condition
- partly_illegible
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 2mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- Found in the archaeological area of Selinunte, in the Malophoros Sanctuary.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 42567
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
500—451 BCE (500 BCE - 451 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
The writing on the verso is in more or less distinct lines; that on the recto is spiral. (Jordan)
Nombre de la víctima + parte del cuerpo (la lengua) que se quiere dañar. La repetición final está destinada a asegurar la efectividad del conjuro. La composición se basa en un estilo formular, con sintagmas repetidos en otros documentos de la misma índole, lo que demuestra su difusión. Esta defixio pertenece al tipo jurídico, puesto que las personas inscritas son sìndicos, que debería intervenir en un juicio en contra del autor. (Lopez-Jimeno)
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- E. Gabrici, «Il Santuario della Malophoros a Selinunte», Monumenti Antichi 32 (1927): 5–419, at 388-389, no. 13
- D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 175, no. 100
- SEG at (1986), 36.0085
- IGASM1 Arena (1989) at no. 65
- López-Jimeno (1991) at no. 9
- J. B. Curbera, «Defixiones», in Sicilia epigraphica. Atti del convegno internazionale Erice 15-18 Ottobre 1998. (ASNP ser.iv, quad.1), a c. di M. I. Gulletta (Pisa, 1999), 159–86, at 178, no. 23
- L. Bettarini, Corpus delle defixiones di Selinunte: edizione e commento, Hellenica (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2005), at 21
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Savannah Neibart
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/16/2021