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A Tabella Defixionis in the Museum of the University of Reading, England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2011

J. M. R. Cormack
J. M. R. Cormack
Affiliation:
University of Reading, England
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Extract

The leaden tablet, on which this defixio is written, was presented to the University of Reading by Dr. W. H. Buckler, F.B.A., who bought it in Constantinople from an antique-dealer, who gave Claudiopolis in Bithynia (the modern Bulu) as its provenance. The number of defixiones from Asia Minor is comparatively small (K. Preisendanz in his ‘Die griechischen und lateinischen Zaubertafeln,’ Archiv f. Papyrusforschung, ix, 1930, 119–154, mentions thirteen from Caria, two from Phrygia, and one from Pontus), and, if this tablet really comes from Claudiopolis, it is the first, so far as I know, to be reported from this region.

Type
Research Article
Information
Harvard Theological Review , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 1951 , pp. 25 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1951

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References

1 In writing the commentary I have been indebted for helpful suggestions to Professor Campbell Bonner, Dr. W. H. Buckler, Professor A. D. Nock, Mr. M. N. Tod, Dr. S. Weinstock, and Professor H. C. Youtie.

2 See Audollent, A., ‘Quelques aspects extérieurs des Tabellae Defixionum’ in Mélanges offerts à M. N. Iorga, Paris, 1933, 31–9Google Scholar.

3 May this be a mistake for σοιρε σανκαν|θαρα?

4 Probably this should be corrected to δωδε|[κ]ακιστη.