The Pella curse tablet is a text written in a distinct Doric Greek idiom, found in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedon, in 1986.[1] Ιt contains a curse or magic spell (Ancient Greek: κατάδεσμος, katadesmos) inscribed on a lead scroll, dated to the first half of the 4th century BC (c. 380–350BC). It was published in the Hellenic Dialectology Journal in 1993.[2] The Pella curse tablet exhibits some of the typical Northwest Greek features,[3] as well as a cluster of unique Doric features that do not appear in other subdialects of this family (e.g. Epirote, Locrian). It represents the same or a very similar vernacular dialect that is also attested in the other Doric inscriptions from Macedonia.[4] This indicates that a Doric Greek dialect was not imported, but proper to Macedon.[5] As a result, the Pella curse tablet has been forwarded as an argument that the Ancient Macedonian language was a dialect of Northwest Greek, and one of the Doric dialects.[6][7]
The spell was written by a woman, possibly named Dagina or Phila. It was intended to prevent the marriage of her love interest, Dionysophon, with Thetima, and secure that Dionysophon would marry and live a happy life with her instead. The spell was entrusted to the corpse of a deceased man, named Macron.[8][9]
^Lamont 2023, p. 121; Engels 2010, p. 95; Fortson 2010, p. 464; Bloomer 2005, p. 195; Fantuzzi & Hunter 2004, p. 376; Voutiras 1998, p. 25
^Voutiras 1993.
^Van Beek 2022, p. 191; Masson 2014, p. 483
^Crespo 2023, pp. 70, 73.
^Crespo 2023, p. 70.
^Lamont 2023, p. 121; Brixhe 2018, pp. 1862–1867; Masson 2014, p. 483; Méndez-Dosuna 2012, p. 145; Engels 2010, p. 95; Meier-Brügger 2003, p. 28; Masson & Dubois 2000, p. 292; Hammond 1993
^Masson 2003, pp. 905–906: "we must now think of a link with North-West Greek (Locrian, Aetolian, Phocidian, Epirote). This view is supported by the recent discovery at *Pella of a curse tablet (4th century BC) which may well be the first 'Macedonian' text attested"
^Christesen & Murray 2010, p. 435.
^Hall 2014, p. 191.
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