Magica Levantina: An edition of mainly unpublished Greek magical inscriptions from the late ancient Levant, with a web portal containing photographic, desriptive and textual documentation of the objects

Magica Levantina：主要是未出版的古黎凡特晚期希腊魔法铭文的版本，带有一个包含对象的照片、描述性和文本文档的门户网站

• 批准号: 285891763
• 负责人: Dr. Robert Daniel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Klassische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/285891763?language=en
• 关键词: Magica; Levantina; edition; mainly; unpublished

The goal of the project is to complete Vol. 1 of the project Magica Levantina (ML) together with a ML Web Portal. Vol. 1 is now planned to contain 37 mainly unpublished Greek magical texts (mostly curses) written on metal tablets (III–VI AD) from the Levant. The Web Portal will present photographic documentation, descriptive information, texts and translations. The texts are being edited according to traditional philological methodology. The Web Portal, on the other hand, features a technological novelty, at least in the fields of Greek and Latin epigraphy, by making photographic documentation of the tablets created by Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) directly available to the public. It had originally been planned that Vol. I and the corresponding part of the Website would be finished by March 2019 and that with a 2-year extension the entire project could be completed. But plans have had to be revised partly owing to the time needed to decipher the great amount of very difficult text. Vol. 1 and the corresponding part of the Web Portal should be completed by March 2020. A new proposal will be submitted for the remainder of the work.ML Vol. 1 will contain 20 Greek curse tablets found in 1994 during American excavations at Promontory Palace in Caesarea Maritima and housed in the Israel Antiquities Authority; another curse from Ceasarea in a private collection; 11 Greek curse tablets (and an Aramaic one) housed in Princeton University Art Museum, mostly unpublished since they were found in 1934–35 during the Franco-American Antioch-and-Vicinity Excavations; and 4 amulets of diverse Levantine provenance.All these texts provide new documentation for various mixtures of the Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, and Orphic religions that characterize late antique magic. They also contain a great variety of details that shed new light on a broad spectrum of aspects of the ancient world. Here a few examples: Not only known types of materia magica (e.g., human hair) but also unknown types (sage, caterpillar remains), all with magical significance, were found with some of the tablets. Four curses against business men found in a single house in Antioch suggest that they had shops in that house. The circus curses, against named horses and charioteers, vary greatly: some show for the first time that charioteers had other professions as well; others cite a hitherto unknown Neoplatonic source; and yet another turns out to contain the only known curse written in Jewish Aramaic. An amulet to protect a women against epilepsy is the smallest known example of ancient Greek micrography. A curse against a pantomime dancer in Caesarea, written about 400 AD, is historically significant, for with a few other bits of evidence it suggests that the Ptolemies introduce the Egyptian crocodile cult into Palestine when they ruled the area 500 years earlier.

该项目的目标是完成 Magica Levantina (ML) 项目的第 1 卷以及 ML 门户网站，目前计划包含 37 篇主要未出版的希腊魔法文本（主要是诅咒）。 –VI AD）来自黎凡特，该门户网站将展示照片文档、描述性信息、文本和翻译，而该门户网站则以技术为特色。新颖性，至少在希腊语和拉丁语铭文领域，通过将反射变换成像 (RTI) 创建的平板电脑的照片文档直接提供给公众，最初计划将第一卷和网站的相应部分提供给公众。预计将于 2019 年 3 月完成，延长 2 年即可完成整个项目，但由于需要时间来破译大量非常困难的文本，因此必须修改计划。的一部分该门户网站应于 2020 年 3 月完成。将为剩余工作提交一份新提案。ML 第 1 卷将包含 1994 年美国在凯撒利亚海角宫进行挖掘时发现的 20 块希腊咒语石板，这些石板存放在以色列古物管理局；来自凯撒利亚的另一件诅咒，藏于普林斯顿大学艺术博物馆的私人收藏中，其中有 11 块希腊诅咒石板（以及一块阿拉姆语石板），大部分未出版。 1934-35 年法美安条克及其周边地区的发掘期间发现的；以及 4 个不同黎凡特出处的护身符。所有这些文本都为代表晚期古代魔法的希腊、埃及、犹太和俄耳甫斯宗教的各种混合提供了新的文献。它们还包含各种各样的细节，为古代世界的各个方面提供了新的线索：这里有一些例子：不仅是已知类型的魔法材料（例如人类的头发）。在安条克的一所房子里发现了四个针对商人的咒语，表明他们在那所房子里有商店，反对马戏团的咒语。马匹和战车御者的名字差异很大：一些首次表明战车御者还有其他职业；另一些则引用了迄今为止未知的新柏拉图来源；而另一个则包含了唯一已知的用犹太教写成的诅咒；保护妇女免遭癫痫病的阿拉姆语护身符是古希腊显微摄影中已知的最小的例子，写于公元 400 年左右，对凯撒利亚的哑剧舞者的诅咒具有重要的历史意义，因为它与其他一些证据一起表明了这一点。托勒密五百年前统治巴勒斯坦地区时，将埃及鳄鱼崇拜引入巴勒斯坦。