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Greek Sacred Law Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Greek Sacred Law Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Editors H.S. Versnel D. Frankfurter J. Hahn VOLUME 152 Greek Sacred Law A Collection of New Documents (NGSL2) (2nd Edition with a Postscript) By Eran Lupu LEIDEN • BOSTON 2009 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lupu, Eran. Greek sacred law : a collection of new documents (NGSL) / by Eran Lupu. -- 2nd ed. with a postscript. p. cm. -- (Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, ISSN 0927-7633 ; v. 152) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-90-04-17317-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Rites and ceremonies--Greece--Sources. 2. Religious law and legislation--Greece--History--Sources. 3. Greece--Religion--Sources. 4. Inscriptions, Greek. I. Title. II. Series. BL788.L87 2009 292.8’4--dc22 2009002036 ISSN 0927-7633 ISBN 978 90 04 17317 0 Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. IN MEMORIAM PATRIS CARISSIMI YEHUDA LUPU Nov. Oct. CONTENTS List of Figures ......................................................... x Preface ................................................................ xi Acknowledgments .................................................... xvii ListofAbbreviations.................................................. xix : : TheCorpusofGreekSacredLaws.................................. 3 TheContentsandFormsofGreekSacredLaw .................... 9 Sanctuaries and Sacred Space .................................... 9 ComprehensiveandSpecic Documents...................... 9 Entry into Sanctuaries .......................................... 14 Protection of Sanctuaries ....................................... 21 Dedications...................................................... 31 Founding, Construction, Repair, and Maintenance of Sanctuaries ................................................... 33 Cult Officials....................................................... 40 Priesthoods...................................................... 40 ComprehensiveandSpecic Regulations...................... 41 Mode of Acquisition ............................................ 44 Varia ............................................................. 52 Other Religious Officials ....................................... 53 CultPerformance.................................................. 54 Sacrice ......................................................... 55 UndatedSacrices.............................................. 56 PeriodicSacrices............................................... 65 SaleofSacricialMeatandSkins.............................. 71 ParticipationinCult ............................................ 72 Varia ............................................................. 73 FuneraryLaws .................................................. 75 Puri cation ...................................................... 77 CultFinances ................................................... 79 CultFoundations................................................ 81 Associations ..................................................... 88 FestivalsandCeremonies.......................................... 90 Specic andComprehensiveRegulations...................... 93 SomeProblemswiththeEvidence............................. 103 TheNatureoftheEvidence.................................... 110 : .(SEG XXXIII ). Attica. Thorikos. Sacri cial Calendar.... 115 .(SEG XXVIII (XXVI )). Attica. Eleusis. Two Deme Decrees. Funding for the Cult of Heracles in Akris ........... 151 .(SEG XXXV ). Attica. Phrearrhioi. Fragmentary SacricialRegulations .......................................... 159 .(SEG XXXVI ). Attica. Marathon. Cave of Pan. Dedication to Pan with a Prohibition .......................... 171 .(SEG XXXI ). Attica. Paeania(?). Statutes of an Eranos .... 177 .(SEG XXX ). Argolis. Tiryns. Fragmentary Cult(?) Regulations...................................................... 191 .(SEG XXVIII ). Arcadia. Megalopolis. Sanctuary Regulations...................................................... 205 .(SEG XXXVI ). Arcadia. Lycosura. Fragmentary SanctuaryRegulations.......................................... 215 .(I.Oropos ; SEG XLVII ). Boeotia. Oropus. Fragmentary Sacri cial Regulations ........................... 219 .(I.Oropos ; SEG XLVII ). Boeotia. Oropus. Fragmentary Sacri cial Regulations ........................... 225 .(SEG XXXII ). Boeotia. Haliartus. Decree on Cult ....... 227 .(SEG XXVI ). Boeotia. Hyettus. Rule for an Oracle ...... 239 .(SEG XLIV ). Macedonia. Amphipolis. Regulations Pertaining to the Cult of Asclepius ............................. 243 .(SEG XXVII ). Macedonia. Beroia. Gymnasiarchal Law 249 .(SEG XLVI ). Chersonesus. Fragmentary Regulations MentioningtheHermaia....................................... 269 .(SEG XXXVIII ). Rhodes. Lindus. Sacri cial Regulations...................................................... 271 .(SEG XXXIX ). Rhodes. Lindus (Charaki). Decree Concerning Suppliants ......................................... 277 .(SEG XXVII ; IG XII , ). Samos. Charter of the Shopkeepers in the Heraion.................................... 285 .(IG XII , ). Samos(?). Sale of a Priesthood ................ 299 .(SEG XXXV ). Chios. Two Decrees Concerning the PriesthoodofEileithyia......................................... 303 .(SEG XXXVIII ). Thasos. Fragmentary Sacri cial Regulations...................................................... 317 .(SEG XLI ). Crete. Eleutherna. Law on drinking.......... 323 .(SEG XLI ). Crete. Eleutherna. Sacri cial Calendar ...... 327 .(SEG XXVIII ). Crete. Lissos. Dedication to Asclepius withSacricialRegulations..................................... 337 .(SEG XXVI ). Sicily. Megara Hyblaea. Sacri cial Law .. 341 .(SEG XXX ). Sicily. Nakone. Decree of Reconciliation .. 347 .(SEG XLIII ). Sicily. Selinus. Sacri ce to Chthonian Divinities; Puri cation from Elasteroi ........................... 359 Appendix A: The Punic Marseilles Tariff.(CIS I ; KAI )..... 391 AppendixB:Checklists............................................... 397 Concordances......................................................... 405 Bibliography .......................................................... 423 Indices................................................................. 435 Figures: following page Postscript .............................................................. 501 LIST OF FIGURES . Corinth VIII , face A . Corinth VIII , face B . No. front . No. back . No. left side . No. right side at the level of line . No. right side at the level of line . No. . No. lines . No. . No. . No. . No. blocks . No. block B . No. block . No. block A: a squeeze . No. : a squeeze . No. : a squeeze . No. : a squeeze in different light . No. . No. . No. : lower left part (lines ): a squeeze . No . No. . No. . No. : a squeeze . No. : a squeeze . No. . No. . No. : a squeeze . No. . No. : the tablet with the bronze bar . No. : drawing of column A . No. : drawing of column B PREFACE The present work, for which I tentatively suggest the abbreviation NGSL,1 is divided into two parts. Part I was conceived as a practical guide to the corpus of Greek sacred laws for the general classicist rather than a theoretical exposition. It is meant to introduce the evidence by means of the evidence itself, and I therefore had to limit the footnotes and the references to scholarship. My primary aim in part II was to collect and republish the sacred laws from mainland Greece, the colonies, and the islands, with the exception of Cos, published after the appearance of Sokolowskis Lois sacrées des cités grecques in . I have, nevertheless, included two inscrip- tions (nos. and ) which were published in the s. Inscriptions from Cos and Asia Minor are not included, but I have added checklists of signi cant new documents. I have left out any inscriptions included in Sokolowskis corpus, even when they were enriched by new frag- ments or improved considerably in respect to readings. A list of some such inscriptions is to be found, however, in Appendix B . Also added are concordances for the various parts of the corpus (for which see Part I pp. ). The principles that guided me in making the present selection are stated in part I pp. .Itsuffices to note here that an occasional stipulation on the subject of religion or cult practice does not neces- sarily qualify a document as a sacred law. Some cases are admittedly undecided. On the whole, I have avoided including here a number of fragments where identi cation as sacred laws depends entirely upon inference or restorations and/or is not backed up by de nite parallels.2 1 N(ew) G(reek) S(acred) L(aws); this abbreviation was suggested to H.S. Versnel by A. Chaniotis; I am grateful to both. 2 IG I3 . Athens. Sacred Law? SEG XXVI . Attica. Agrileza. A Calendar. With no trace of references to either offerings or events (see
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