ISic030015: Lead defixio
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bettarini ;
- 3: Ͱύ(ψις) Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
- 4: Ͱεˉρακλ(είδας) Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
- 5: Ͱιστία(ρχος) Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
- 6: Χάρο(ψ/-πίδας/-πῖνος)Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
- 7: Ͱύ(ψις) Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
- 8: [Ἀ]μάρι(ος) Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
- 12: Ͱιστί(αρχος) Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
- 13: ἌϜισ(τος)Dubois, Lopez Jimeno; Ἆγις Arena
- 15: Σάσα(μος) Dubois, Lopez Jimeno
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular shape, now broken into four fragments. Heavily corroded.
- Object type
- lamina
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 10 cm, width: 5 cm, depth: cm
Material
- Description
- lead
- Type > subtype
- metal.lead > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Horizontal writing, left to right.
- Text condition
- partly_illegible
- Technique
- engraved
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-15: 4mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Selinus
- Provenance found
- No data
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 42565
- Autopsy
- No Autopsy
- Map
Date
500-451 BCE (500 BCE - 451 BCE)- Evidence
- lettering, archaeological-context
Text type
commentary
This tablet is peculiar on account of its use of nominal abbreviations, which constitutes a rather unusual practice for curse tablets on account of the fact that they often required precision when indicating the victim to be cursed. If we accept ΑϜΙΣ in l.13, we must recall that in the Sicilian Greek dialects intervocalic digamma is unattested, even in the earliest inscriptions. For this reason, Lopez Jimeno dates the tablet to the fourth century BCE; Bettarini, however, believes that the author of the text is not a Sicilian but a mainland Greek speaker.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- E. Gabrici, «Il Santuario della Malophoros a Selinunte», Monumenti Antichi 32 (1927): 5–419, at 395 no. 18
- L.H. Jeffery, ‘Further Comments on Archaic Greek Inscriptions’, Annual of the British School at Athens 50 (1955): 67–84, at 73 no. 6
- Margherita Guarducci, Epigrafia greca, 4 voll. (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1967), at 401
- D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 176 no. 103
- IGASM1 Arena (1989) at 71
- IGDS1 Dubois (1989) at 39
- Lopez-Jimeno (1991) at 44 no. 4
- 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 179 no. 26
- L. Bettarini, Corpus delle defixiones di Selinunte: edizione e commento, Hellenica (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2005), at 27
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/24/2022