Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient WorldJohn G. Gager Oxford University Press, 28 de out. de 1999 - 296 páginas In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and the 5th Century C.E., have been discovered from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Extending into every aspect of ancient life--athletic and theatrical competitions, judicial proceedings, love affairs, business rivalries, and the recovery of stolen property--they shed light on a new dimension of classical study previously inaccessible. Here, for the first time, these texts have been translated into English with a substantial translator's introduction revealing the cultural, social, and historical context for the texts. This book will interest historians, classicists, scholars of religion, and those concerned with ancient magic. |
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... , Eine neue Fluchtafel aus Ostia (Helsinki, 1968), esp. pp. 23– 31: “Eine Übersicht über lateinische Fluchtafeln, die sich nicht bei Audollent und Besnier finden” s.v. SuppMag TAPA Tomlin Wilhelm Wortmann Wünsch (1900) Wünsch, Antike.
... , Eine neue Fluchtafel aus Ostia (Helsinki, 1968), esp. pp. 23– 31: “Eine Übersicht über lateinische Fluchtafeln, die sich nicht bei Audollent und Besnier finden” s.v. SuppMag TAPA Tomlin Wilhelm Wortmann Wünsch (1900) Wünsch, Antike.
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... Tomlin, “The Curse Tablets,” in The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath, vol. 2: The Finds from the Sacred Spring, ed. B. Cunliffe (Oxford, 1988), pp. 59–277 A. Wilhelm, “Über die Zeit einiger attischer Fluchtafeln,” JOAI 7 (1904): 105–26 D ...
... Tomlin, “The Curse Tablets,” in The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath, vol. 2: The Finds from the Sacred Spring, ed. B. Cunliffe (Oxford, 1988), pp. 59–277 A. Wilhelm, “Über die Zeit einiger attischer Fluchtafeln,” JOAI 7 (1904): 105–26 D ...
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... Tomlin notes, “it was quite easy to make a tablet” by pouring hot lead into a mold and then rolling, hammering, or scraping the sheet to obtain a smooth surface.15 Thereafter the sheet could be cut into smaller pieces to make individual ...
... Tomlin notes, “it was quite easy to make a tablet” by pouring hot lead into a mold and then rolling, hammering, or scraping the sheet to obtain a smooth surface.15 Thereafter the sheet could be cut into smaller pieces to make individual ...
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... Tomlin notes that “a practiced scribe could write on the soft metal surface as easily as on wax.”20 Of course, the real issue here is to know who actually inscribed the letters, a professional scribe or the private individual seeking to ...
... Tomlin notes that “a practiced scribe could write on the soft metal surface as easily as on wax.”20 Of course, the real issue here is to know who actually inscribed the letters, a professional scribe or the private individual seeking to ...
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... Tomlin's cautious conclusion that we should expect to find “a mixture of professional and amateur scribes,”26 but on balance the scales would appear to favor professionals, at least in the Roman period, both for inscribing the tablets ...
... Tomlin's cautious conclusion that we should expect to find “a mixture of professional and amateur scribes,”26 but on balance the scales would appear to favor professionals, at least in the Roman period, both for inscribing the tablets ...
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Legal and Political Disputes | 25 |
Businesses Shops and Taverns | 25 |
Pleas for Justice and Revenge | 25 |
Miscellaneous Tablets | 25 |
Antidotes and Counterspells | 25 |
Testimonies | 52 |
Glossary of Uncommon Words | 84 |
Index | 3 |
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ABRASAX Agora amulets ancient angels appears Aramaic Asia Minor Athenian Athens Attica Audollent Bibl binding spells bowl Cairo Geniza charaktêres Charias chariot Christian client common Context curse tablets D. R. Jordan daimones defixiones deity Demeter deposited discussion Egypt Egyptian ephesia grammata Faraone figures figurine Fluchtafeln formulas fourth century B.C.E. gave birth goddess gods grave Greece Greek term hands Hebrew Hekate Hermes holy horses IAÔ Incantations inscribed inscription invoke Jewish Kerameikos Latin Lead tablet measuring letters lines location not known Lord love spells Magic Magika mentioned nail names one’s original location Osiris palindrome papyri Peiraeus Persephone person Picatrix Preisendanz probably professional racing recipes reference ritual Roman Rome second century C.E. Sethian Side sixth century C.E. slaves soul spirits target third century C.E. Tomlin tongue translation trierarch underworld verb Versnel voces mysticae woman words Wortmann written Wünsch Ziebarth