'Seal of Solomon' on a Bilingual Defixio from Carnuntum
(Pannonia)

C 2023

'Seal of Solomon' on a Bilingual Defixio from Carnuntum (Pannonia)

FRANEK, Juraj

Basic information

Original name

'Seal of Solomon' on a Bilingual Defixio from Carnuntum (Pannonia)

Authors

FRANEK, Juraj (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Berlin, Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity : Transmission and Transformation of Ideas, p. 205-222, 18 pp. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, Vol. 155, 2023

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60202 Specific languages

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00134023

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-3-11-079507-3

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110796285-012

Keywords in English

Solomon; Seal; Curse Tablets; Defixiones; Carnuntum; Bilingualism; Greek Epigraphy; Magic

Abstract

V originále

The object of our present study is a lead lamella (25 cm × 14.5 cm) discovered in 1923 during the excavation of the amphitheatre located in the civilian quarter of Carnuntum, the capital of Pannonia Superior. The tablet features three distinctive elements: (a) a curse written in Latin, directed against Eudemus, an otherwise unknown individual whom the petitioner suspects as a culprit in the case of a theft he or she suffered; (b) magical signs and an uninterpretable sequence of Greek letters inscribed in a tabula ansata and a rectangular box; (c) a two-line inscription in Greek that mentions 'Seal of Solomon'. I first present an edition of the text and continue with a brief discussion of the Latin curse and voces magicae, which is followed by a new prosposed reading and interpretation of the Greek two-liner.

Links

GA21-06319S, research and development project

Name: Performativní formule v epigrafických dokumentech antické středomořské tradice

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

FRANEK, Juraj. 'Seal of Solomon' on a Bilingual Defixio from Carnuntum (Pannonia). In Fialová, Radka; Hoblík, Jiří; Kitzler, Petr. Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity : Transmission and Transformation of Ideas. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2023, p. 205-222. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, Vol. 155. ISBN 978-3-11-079507-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110796285-012.

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FRANEK, Juraj. 'Seal of Solomon' on a Bilingual Defixio from Carnuntum (Pannonia). In Fialová, Radka; Hoblík, Jiří; Kitzler, Petr. \textit{Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity : Transmission and Transformation of Ideas}. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2023, p.~205-222. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, Vol. 155. ISBN~978-3-11-079507-3. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110796285-012.

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