ISic030015: ISic030015

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

Material

lead

Condition

complete

Dimensions

height: 10 cm, width: 5 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

Horizontal writing, left to right.

Text condition

partly_illegible

Letter heights

Line 1-15: 4mm

Interlinear heights

Provenance

Place of origin

Selinus

Provenance found

No data

Current location

Place

Palermo, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 42565

Autopsy

No Autopsy

Map

Date

Evidence

lettering, archaeological-context

Text type

defixio

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

• TM: 696124
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: -
• PHI: 301178
• PHI: 340342

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
• Renato Arena, Iscrizioni greche arcaiche di Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Iscrizioni di Sicilia. I. Megara e Selinunte, 1st ed., vol. 1 (Milano: Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino - La Goliardica, 1989), at 71
• Laurent Dubois, Inscriptions grecques dialectales de Sicile : contribution à l’étude du vocabulaire grec colonial, CEFR 119 (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1989), at 39
• M. A. López Jimeno, Las tabellae defixionis de la Sicilia griega (Amsterdam, 1991), at 44 no. 4
• L. Bettarini, Corpus delle defixiones di Selinunte: edizione e commento, Hellenica (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2005), at 138 no. 27

Discussion

• D.R. Jordan, ‘A Survey of Greek Defixiones Not Included in the Special Corpora’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 26 (1985): 151–97, at 103
• 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 26

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Thea Sommerschield

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Chartrand
• Michael Metcalfe
• system
• Simona Stoyanova
• Valentina Mignosa
• Thea Sommerschield
• Alessandra Rocchetti

Last revision

6/24/2022