Watching a Lawsuit: A New Curse Tablet from Southern Russia

IF 0.2 3区历史学 0 CLASSICS

GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES Pub Date : 1992-03-01 DOI:10.11588/PROPYLAEUMDOK.00000100

A. Chaniotis

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D AVID R. JORDAN has recently published with ample commentary a curse tablet said to have been found in "southern Russia."l In relation to a lawsuit an unknown person curses his opponents, as well as those who "are their supporting speakers/advocates" (acrol cruvTlYOpOVcrl aU'WlC;) and those who "observe" (nupu'tTlpoucrt). The defixio probably dates to the late fourth or early third century B.C. The expression acrol nupa'tTlPoucrl is unique in curse tablets mentioning lawsuits 2 and is moreover unknown in legal documents. The editor is cautious and rightly points out that a nupu'tTl PTl'tllC; "was someone whose presence, like that of the opponent's cruvllYoP0C;, in a possibly fourthor early third-century lawcourt north of the Black Sea was thought to be worth cursing." This paper, drawing on some parallels for the role of the public at trials, aims to show that the nupu'tTl PTl'tu [ were persons brought by the litigant to the court in order to influence the judges with their reactions or merely with their presence. The word napu'tTl PTl'tllC; is not attested as a legal terminus tcchnicus, nor does it occur in court orations or legal documents to describe an institution, a magistrate, or the ordinary participants in a trial (i. e., /lap'tup£c;. cruvTnOpOt. cruClKOl. EVOPKOl. ClKUcr'tUi, KU'tllYOPOt. etc.). In the Attic orators nupuTllPElV preserves its literal meaning, i.e., "watch, observe, look on" (Sc. a lawsuit), without judicial implications.3 Aeschines, for instance, in the only attestation of the word in a

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观看一场诉讼:来自俄罗斯南部的一块新的诅咒碑

D . AVID R. JORDAN最近发表了大量评论，据说在“俄罗斯南部”发现了一块诅咒碑。在一起诉讼中，一个不知名的人诅咒了他的对手，以及那些“支持他们的发言人/倡导者”(acrol cruvTlYOpOVcrl aU'WlC;)和那些“观察”(nupu'tTlpoucrt)。这种表达可能可以追溯到公元前4世纪末或3世纪初。在提到诉讼的诅咒片中，这种表达是独一无二的，而且在法律文件中也不为人知。编辑很谨慎，并正确地指出一个nupu'tTl ' PTl' llc;“在黑海北部的一个可能是公元四、三世纪早期的法庭上，他的存在，就像对手残酷的存在一样，被认为是值得诅咒的人。”本文借鉴了公众在审判中的作用的一些相似之处，旨在表明nupu'tTl PTl'tu[是由诉讼当事人带到法院的人，目的是通过他们的反应或仅仅通过他们的在场来影响法官。napu'tTl ' PTl' llc这个词;没有被证明为法律上的技术终点，也没有出现在法庭陈述或法律文件中，以描述一个机构、地方法官或审判的普通参与者(例如，“lap' up”)。cruvTnOpOt。cruClKOl。EVOPKOl。ClKUcr 'tUi KU 'tllYOPOt。等等)。在阁楼上，演说家的nupuTllPElV保留了它的字面意思，即“观察、观察、注视”(参见诉讼)，没有司法含义例如，艾斯钦人在一篇文章中唯一证明了这个词

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