CGRN 216

Small sacrificial regulation from Delos

Date :

ca. 100 BC

Justification: lettering (Marcadé).

Provenance

Delos . Found on the slope below the sanctuary of the Ascalonite deities on Mount Cynthus. Now placed back in the same location.

Support

Cylindrical altar of white marble.

  • Height: 65 cm
  • Width: (diameter) 55 cm

Layout

The altar is inscribed with the same dedication on both sides and has a fringe above and below. The small regulation that is given here is inscribed at 3.5 cm below the dedications, but is visible only on one side.

Letters: 1.5 cm high. Space between lines: 0.5 cm high.

Bibliography

Edition here based on Marcadé 1949: 152-155, with ph. fig. 1.

Other edition: Roussel ID 1720 (without only a few letter-traces).

Cf. also: Sokolowski LSS 58; SEG 23, 507.

Text


Φιλόστρατος Φιλοστράτου
Ἀσκαλωνίτης τραπ[εζιτεύων]
ἐν Δήλωι, ὑπὲρ τ[ῆς Ἀσκα]λ[ωνι]-
τῶν
πόλεως καὶ γυ-
5ναικὸς
καὶ τέκν[ων]
Ποσειδῶνι Ἀσκαλ[ωνίτῃ].
vacat
ικὰ μ θύειν
μηδ[ὲ] α[γ]ει[α].

Translation

Philostatros, son of Philostratos, Ascalonite, banker on Delos, on behalf of the city of the Ascalonites and (5) his wife and children, to Poseidon of Ascalon. Do not sacrifice any swine (meat) or any goat (meat).

Traduction

Philostratos, fils de Philostratos, Ascalonite, banquier à Délos, pour la cité des Ascalonites, (5) son épouse et ses enfants, au Poséidon d'Ascalon. Ne sacrifier ni du porc ni de la chèvre.

Commentary

This small regulation (lines 8-9) is inscribed below a dedication by a banker from Ascalon, Philostatros, son of Philostratos (lines 1-6). He dedicated the altar to Poseidon of Ascalon and it may be presumed that the regulation also pertains to this cult.

Interdictions against goat and pig occur with some regularity on Delos, these are especially connected with oriental cults. Goats were not allowed in the cult of Heracles and Haurona (CGRN 174, line 12); a purity regulation found in the sanctuary of Syrian deities (CGRN 217, line 3) states that one has to wash oneself after eating porc products. In a sacrificial regulation dedicated to Zeus Ourios, Astarte and Aphrodite Ourania, by another citizen of Ascalon—and probably belonging to the same sanctuary as the present inscription—it is forbidden to sacrifice meat from goat, swine and cow (CGRN 171, lines 6-7, with Commentary on this aspect of Near Eastern cults).

Publication

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License 4.0 .

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the DOI (https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN216), as well as the year of consultation (see “Home” for details on how to cite or click “Export Citation” to create a reference for this specific file).

Authors

  • Jan-Mathieu Carbon
  • Saskia Peels
  • Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

How To Cite

Brief citation of the Greek text : CGRN 216, lines x-x.

Reference to the file as a critical study of the inscription : Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels et Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, "CGRN 216: Small sacrificial regulation from Delos", in Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), 2017-, consulted on April 18, 2024. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/file/216/; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN216.

Full citation of the CGRN in a list of abbreviations or a bibliography is the following : Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels-Matthey, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), 2017-, consulted on April 18, 2024. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN0.

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