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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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
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60202 Specific languages
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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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
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Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D., učo 10362. Changed: 23/2/2024 12:09.
Abstract
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.
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GA21-06319S, research and development projectName: Performativní formule v epigrafických dokumentech antické středomořské tradice
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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