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The Petelia Gold Tablet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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Through the kindness of Mr. Newton I was informed that the British Museum is now the possessor of an inscribed gold tablet found on the site of the ancient Petelia, in Southern Italy, which had been considered as lost after the death of Millingen, to whom it first belonged. The inscription was published by Franz in 1836, and after him by Göttling; afterwards it appeared in the third volume of the Corp. Inscr. Gr. No. 5,772, and recently again in Kaibel's Epigrammata Graeca ex Lapid. No. 1,037. Franz's first reading, from the original, was not quite satisfactory, and the modified reading given by him afterwards, and by the others, was not founded on the inspection of the original, a fac-simile of which was never published. Recent discoveries having thrown a new light on this monument I was glad to hear of its existence in the British Museum, and Mr. Newton kindly favoured my wish of seeing it published again more completely and exactly, with a fac-simile. He entrusted this task to Mr. Cecil Smith, to whose skilful accuracy we are indebted for the fac-simile here published, representing the monument slightly larger than its real size, as well as for the following explanatory note on the reading of the inscription.
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page 111 note 1 Bullettino dell' Instituto di Corr. Arch., 1836, p. 149.
page 111 note 2 Narratio de Oraculo Trophonii, Jen. 1843, and Gesammelte Abhandlungen, i. 166, sq.
page 113 note 1 I must except Bouché-Leclercq, M. (Histoire de la Divination dans l'Antiquité, iii. p. 381)Google Scholar, who expresses a more correct opinion.
page 113 notes 2 See also Lenormant, , La Grande Grèce, i. 321, 385Google Scholar.
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