The Selenite and Lead Curse Tablets from Amathous, Cyprus and the Transmission of Magical Technology
Discovered in the late nineteenth century and subsequently acquired by the British Museum, the cache of more than 200 lead and selenite tablets from Cyprus is one of the largest archives of curse tablets from antiquity. Three features of the assemblage suggest connections with magical texts known fr...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Mohr Siebeck
2021
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Religion in the Roman empire
Année: 2021, Volume: 7, Numéro: 1, Pages: 43-70 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Amathus (Zypern)
/ Grèce antique (Antiquité)
/ Religion
/ Tablette de malédiction
/ Rite
/ Zauberpapyri
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BC Religions du Proche-Orient ancien BE Religion gréco-romaine KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Curse Tablets
B Archaeology B Rituel B Magical Papyri B network theory B ritual technology |
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| Résumé: | Discovered in the late nineteenth century and subsequently acquired by the British Museum, the cache of more than 200 lead and selenite tablets from Cyprus is one of the largest archives of curse tablets from antiquity. Three features of the assemblage suggest connections with magical texts known from Egypt, the Levant and other locations: references to a 'muzzling deposit', the use of charaktêres, and an invocation to Chthonic deities. This paper analyses these features to explore the mechanisms by which ritual knowledge may have been transmitted in the Mediterranean, positing that ritual techniques may have travelled through direct and indirect pathways within a broad network of exchange. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4471 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion in the Roman empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/rre-2021-0006 |