Cursing in the Sanctuary : Some Textual Remarks on a Curse
Tablet from Kempraten

J 2019

Cursing in the Sanctuary : Some Textual Remarks on a Curse Tablet from Kempraten

URBANOVÁ, Daniela, Juraj FRANEK and Andrea BARTA

Basic information

Original name

Cursing in the Sanctuary : Some Textual Remarks on a Curse Tablet from Kempraten

Authors

URBANOVÁ, Daniela (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Juraj FRANEK (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Andrea BARTA (348 Hungary)

Edition

Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina, Praha, Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019, 0046-1628

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60202 Specific languages

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

webová stránka časopisu URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00120537

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

UT WoS

000521518500004

Keywords in English

curse tablets; defixiones; prayers for justice; kempraten; magic; simile formula

Abstract

V originále

During archaeological excavations conducted in the period 2009–2013 at Kempraten (Centum Prata) on the shores of Lake Zürich in the municipality of Rapperswil- Jona, five lead curse tablets were found in the remains of a Gallo-Roman sanctuary complex. One of these tablets (DTK 1) was found in 2009 and first published in 2015.It is fashioned in the shape of a tabula ansata and contains a prayer for justice directed to Mater Magna, a goddess identifiable in Roman religion with the Anatolian Cybele. We propose a new reading of the tablet's simile-formula, sic iace(at) in xancto (=sancto) que(m)admodum haec epistula iacitura est, and we compare this new interpretation with other explicit mentions of the deposition of curse tablets in Graeco-Roman sanctuaries.

Links

MUNI/A/1269/2018, interní kód MU

Name: Výzkum starověkých jazyků mediteránního prostoru, jejich písemnictví a příslušných kultur, včetně jejich recepce – 2019 (Acronym: Staré jazyky a kultury)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

URBANOVÁ, Daniela, Juraj FRANEK and Andrea BARTA. Cursing in the Sanctuary : Some Textual Remarks on a Curse Tablet from Kempraten. Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina. Praha: Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019, vol. 55, No 1, p. 45-66. ISSN 0046-1628.

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URBANOVÁ, Daniela, Juraj FRANEK and Andrea BARTA. Cursing in the Sanctuary : Some Textual Remarks on a Curse Tablet from Kempraten. \textit{Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina}. Praha: Centre for Classical Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2019, vol.~55, No~1, p.~45-66. ISSN~0046-1628.

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