CGRN 80

Two fragments of a sacrificial regulation from Erythrai

Date :

ca. 350 BC

Justification: lettering and style (Engelmann - Merkelbach).

Provenance

Erythrai . Found at Aridsa, probably near the southwestern area of the acropolis. Current location unknown, perhaps lost.

Support

Two fragments from blue-grey marble stelai, A and B. In 1910, Keil suggested on the basis of appearance and content that both fragments might belong to the same regulation. A is only preserved on the lefthand side, and broken at the top and bottom. B is manifestly also preserved on the lefthand side and at the bottom, otherwise heavily broken.

Fragment A

  • Height: 29 cm
  • Width: 34 cm
  • Depth: 16.5 cm

Fragment B

Dimensions are not available.

Layout

Stoichedon 22, probably on both fragments, though neither is intact. This count depends on the highly plausible restorations in B8-11 (as well as A2-3).

Letters: 12 mm high.

Bibliography

Edition here based on Engelmann - Merkelbach I.Erythrai 203 (for A) + 204 (for B).

Other edition: Keil 1910, with ph.

Cf. also: Sokolowski LSAM 21 (for A) and 22 (for B).

Further bibliography: Carbon 2017.

Text

Fragment A
[..?..]
[ἄ]ρτογ καὶ ἔλαι[ον ....8....]-
ι δὲ ἐπὶ τὸμ βωμ[ὸν ὠμοπλάτη]-
ν δεξιὴν καὶ γλ[ῶσσαν καὶ ῥυ]-
γχὸν καὶ πλευρ[...6... τὰ πε]-
5ρὶ τῆς νόθης κ[.....9.... δε]-
ξιὴν καὶ κεφα[λὴν ....8....]
[.]τον ἄρτον κ[αὶ .....10.....]
[.]ν ἄρτον κ[αὶ ......11.....]
[..]νοσε[........16........]
[..?..]
Fragment B
[..?..]
σ[...........21..........]
ἄρ[τον .........17........]
οτε[..........19.........]
νεωσ[.........18.........]
5κρέα τὰ [........16........]
αι ταῦτα [.......13...... φ]-
θοῖν διδότ[ω ... ἢν δὲ ἰδιώτ]-
ης θύῃ, τὰ δέρ[ματα καὶ τὰ πε]-
ρὶ τῆς γλώσσης [διδότω ἃπερ]
10καὶ ἡ πόλις, ἀργύριο[ν δὲ ἐμβάλ]-
[λ]εν 𐅂𐅂 τελείου, [𐅂] γ[α]⌈λ⌉Χ[αθηνοῦ].
vacat

Translation

Fragment A

[...] a bread and olive-oil [...] and on the altar the right [shoulderblade?] and the tongue [and] the snout and rib[... the portions] (5) around the false-rib [...] the right [...] and the head [...] bread [and...] bread [and...]

Fragment B

[...] a bread [...] (5) meat the [...] these [...] let him give a flat-cake [... And if a private individual] sacrifices, [let him give] the skins [and the portions around] the tongue [as] (10) the city also (provides). Money [to deposit (i.e. in the money-box)], 2 drachmae for an adult animal, [1 dr. for a suckling animal.]

Traduction

Fragment A

[...] un pain et de l'huile [...] et sur l'autel [l'omoplate ?] droite et la langue [et] le museau et côt[... les portions] (5) autour de la côte flottante [...] la droite [...] et la tête [...] du pain [et ...]

Fragment B

[...] un pain [...] (5) de la viande de [...] ces [...] que l'on donne un gâteau plat [... Et si un particulier] sacrifie, [qu'il donne] les peaux [et les portions autour] de la langue [comme] (10) la cité (le fait) également. [Déposer] de l'argent : 2 drachmes pour un animal adulte, [1 dr. pour un animal de lait.]

Commentary

Though it remains to some degree unclear if Keil's hypothesis that the two fragments belong together is absolutely correct (see above on Support), it is nonetheless clear that they share many points of similarity. Both inscriptions apparently had a similar appearance and format (see above and Layout), and their content has much common ground. Even if one were to suppose that they did not form part of the same stele, then, the two fragments taken together form a small dossier on sacrificial portions and tariffs at Erythrai. Unfortunately, their context is almost completely lost and little can be discerned about it on the basis of the texts themselves. For a detailed regulation concerning the cult of Asclepius at Erythrai, notably mentioning rules for table-offerings and other portions to be given to the priestly personnel in the case of adult and a suckling animal, cf. here CGRN 76.

The precise organisation and content of fragment A is not completely clear. It mentions several times breads (lines A1, A7-8), and in one case makes a specific reference to portions which must be placed "on the altar" (line A2). For list of portions to be placed on the altar, apparently juxtaposed with priestly portions, cp. here CGRN 103 (Phrearrhioi). Fragment B also apparently contained lists of sacrificial portions to be provided and mentions in at least one case a prescriptive verb in the imperative (line B7). There are perhaps two sections of the regulations preserved here: first, probably rules for private individuals performing sacrifices (lines B7-10), followed by a short prescription concerning sacrificial tariffs (lines B10-11). For such sacrificial tariffs occurring as part of larger cultic regulations, cp. here CGRN 61 (Athens), and CGRN 70 (Oropos), lines 5-9. As usual here, the tariff for an adult animal is double that of suckling animal (according to the plausible correction of Sokolowski in line 11, adopted by Engelmann and Merkelbach).

Fragment A

Lines A1-3: As Keil and Sokolowski note, in line 1 a verb denoting the placement of the portions on the altar is a likely restoration, i.e. [τιθένα]|ι or one of its compounds. As Keil also notes, the shoulderblade is attractive restoration in line 2, filling the available space in the stoichedon; alternatives include most prominently the right thigh, κωλῆν. For the role of the shoulderblade in Greek sacrifice, see here CGRN 120 (Sinope), line 8, and esp. CGRN 129 (Patara), lines 4-5. For righthand portions, cf. CGRN 182 (Mytilene), line 9, and CGRN 98 (Erythrai), lines A12-16, for the right leg (see Commentary). Cf. also the other righthand (feminine) portion mentioned in lines A5-6. For the tongue, see here CGRN 41 (Chios), line 9; this portion will not have produced much of a burned effect on the altar, and it may subsequently have been granted to the priestly personnel.

Lines A4-6: The traces at the beginning of line 4 can only be interpreted as part of the word for a snout. As Engelmann and Merkelbach remark, the word ῥύγχος is typically used of the snout of swine, but in fact it could also be used for the muzzle of any quadruped (cf. LSJ s.v.); we therefore cannot be sure about the type of animal in question here. For "extremities" of the head such as the snout, see here CGRN 39 (Miletos), lines 10-13, with ref. to I.Didyma 482, lines 4-5 (where they were sold). A portion of the ribs seems to be offered in line 4; for such portions, cp. again here CGRN 103 (Phrearrhioi), line 5. Accordingly, we should also think of the portion called here νόθη, whose precise interpretation has escaped all of the editors of the text, in connection with the ribs of the animal. Indeed, νόθη was an adjective used to qualify πλεύρη (or πλευραί), and thus is a technical term of anatomy: the so-called "false ribs", especially the last two bones of the ribcage which are to some degree "floating", connected only to the vertebral column and unfused with the other ribs and the sternum; see esp. Paus. 1.35.6, or e.g. Aret. SA 2.6, for human anatomy. The portions envisaged here remain a bit unclear, though perhaps what was meant was a cut of meat "around the false rib", to be related or distinguished from the portion of the ribs mentioned immediately before. For further discussion of this interpretation and for ribs as sacrificial portions, see Carbon. For the head as a portion, mentioned in line 6, see here CGRN 38 (Chios), line B7.

Fragment B

Lines B6-7: For the type of cake known as φθόϊς, cf. esp. CGRN 76 (Erythrai), line 22.

Lines B8-10: If the restoration is correct (which seems plausible), then private individuals were allowed to keep the skins of sacrificed animals as their prerogative: cp. here CGRN 39 (Miletos), lines 3-8. The portion or portions mentioned as "around the tongue" is intriguing and recalls the phrasing found in lines A4-6 for the false rib. Presumably what is meant here are portions of meat in the throat or around the mouth of the animal. For the left "cheek" (probably a side of the head) granted to a priestess on Chios, cf. here CGRN 37, line 11. The precise restoration at the end of line 9 remains problematic: were the aforementioned portions to be given "as the polis does also", or was this a reference to other portions, i.e. that the remainder of the portions was to be given "as the polis does"?

Publication

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Authors

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

How To Cite

Brief citation of the Greek text : CGRN 80, lines x-x.

Reference to the file as a critical study of the inscription : Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels et Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, "CGRN 80: Two fragments of a sacrificial regulation from Erythrai", in Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), 2017-, consulted on November 23, 2024. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/file/80/; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN80.

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 November 23, 2024. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN0. 

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					<p>Edition here based on Engelmann - Merkelbach <bibl type="abbr" n="I.Erythrai">I.Erythrai</bibl> 203 (for A) + 204 (for B).</p>
					<p>Other edition: <bibl type="author_date" n="Keil 1910">Keil 1910</bibl>, with ph.</p>
					<p>Cf. also: Sokolowski <bibl type="abbr" n="LSAM">LSAM</bibl> 21 (for A) and 22 (for B).</p>

<p>Further bibliography: <bibl type="author_date" n="Carbon 2017">Carbon 2017</bibl>.</p>
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<lb xml:id="line_A6" n="A6" break="no"/>ξιὴν</w></name> καὶ <name type="portion"><w lemma="κεφαλή">κεφ<unclear>α</unclear><supplied reason="lost">λὴν</supplied></w></name> <gap reason="lost" quantity="8" unit="character"/>
	    					
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					<p>Fragment A</p>
	    				<p>[...] a bread and olive-oil [...] and on the altar the right [shoulderblade?] and the tongue [and] the snout and rib[... the portions] (5) around the false-rib [...] the right [...] and the head [...] bread [and...] bread [and...]
					</p>
	    				<p>Fragment B</p>
	    				<p>[...] a bread [...] (5) meat the [...] these [...] let him give a flat-cake [... And if a private individual] sacrifices, [let him give] the skins [and the portions around] the tongue [as] (10) the city also (provides). Money [to deposit (i.e. in the money-box)], 2 drachmae for an adult animal, [1 dr. for a suckling animal.] 	
	    				</p>
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					<head>Traduction</head>
					<p>Fragment A</p>
					<p>[...] un pain et de l'huile [...] et sur l'autel  [l'omoplate ?] droite et la langue [et] le museau et côt[... les portions] (5) autour de la côte flottante [...] la droite [...] et la tête [...] du pain [et ...]</p>	
					<p>Fragment B</p>
					<p>[...] un pain [...] (5) de la viande de [...] ces [...] que l'on donne un gâteau plat [... Et si un particulier] sacrifie, [qu'il donne] les peaux [et les portions autour] de la langue [comme] (10) la cité (le fait) également. [Déposer] de l'argent : 2 drachmes pour un animal adulte, [1 dr. pour un animal de lait.]
				
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					<div type="commentary">    
						<head>Commentary</head>    
						
<p>Though it remains to some degree unclear if Keil's hypothesis that the two fragments belong together is absolutely correct (see above on Support), it is nonetheless clear that they share many points of similarity. Both inscriptions apparently had a similar appearance and format (see above and Layout), and their content has much common ground. Even if one were to suppose that they did not form part of the same stele, then, the two fragments taken together form a small dossier on sacrificial portions and tariffs at Erythrai. Unfortunately, their context is almost completely lost and little can be discerned about it on the basis of the texts themselves. For a detailed regulation  concerning the cult of Asclepius at Erythrai, notably mentioning rules for table-offerings and other portions to be given to the priestly personnel in the case of adult and a suckling animal, cf. here <ref target="CGRN_76">CGRN 76</ref>.</p>
						
<p>The precise organisation and content of fragment A is not completely clear. It mentions several times breads (lines A1, A7-8), and in one case makes a specific reference to portions which must be placed "on the altar" (line A2). For list of portions to be placed on the altar, apparently juxtaposed with priestly portions, cp. here <ref target="CGRN_103">CGRN 103</ref> (Phrearrhioi). Fragment B also apparently contained lists of sacrificial portions to be provided and mentions in at least one case a prescriptive verb in the imperative (line B7). There are perhaps two sections of the regulations preserved here: first, probably rules for private individuals performing sacrifices (lines B7-10), followed by a short prescription concerning sacrificial tariffs (lines B10-11). For such sacrificial tariffs occurring as part of larger cultic regulations, cp. here <ref target="CGRN_61">CGRN 61</ref> (Athens), and <ref target="CGRN_70">CGRN 70</ref> (Oropos), lines 5-9. As usual here, the tariff for an adult animal is double that of suckling animal (according to the plausible correction of Sokolowski in line 11, adopted by Engelmann and Merkelbach).</p>
						
<p>Fragment A</p>
													
<p>Lines A1-3: As Keil and Sokolowski note, in line 1 a verb denoting the placement of the portions on the altar is a likely restoration, i.e. [τιθένα]|ι or one of its compounds. As Keil also notes, the shoulderblade is attractive restoration in line 2, filling the available space in the stoichedon; alternatives include most prominently the right thigh, κωλῆν. For the role of the shoulderblade in Greek sacrifice, see here <ref target="CGRN_120">CGRN 120</ref> (Sinope), line 8, and esp. <ref target="CGRN_129">CGRN 129</ref> (Patara), lines 4-5. For righthand portions, cf. <ref target="CGRN_182">CGRN 182</ref> (Mytilene), line 9, and <ref target="http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/CGRN_98/">CGRN 98</ref> (Erythrai), lines A12-16, for the right leg (see Commentary). Cf. also the other righthand (feminine) portion mentioned in lines A5-6. For the tongue, see here <ref target="CGRN_41">CGRN 41</ref> (Chios), line 9; this portion will not have produced much of a burned effect on the altar, and it may subsequently have been granted to the priestly personnel.</p>
										
<p>Lines A4-6: The traces at the beginning of line 4 can only be interpreted as part of the word for a snout. As Engelmann and Merkelbach remark, the word ῥύγχος is typically used of the snout of swine, but in fact it could also be used for the muzzle of any quadruped (cf. <bibl type="abbr" n="LSJ">LSJ</bibl> s.v.); we therefore cannot be sure about the type of animal in question here. For "extremities" of the head such as the snout, see here <ref target="CGRN_39">CGRN 39</ref> (Miletos), lines 10-13, with ref. to <bibl type="abbr" n="I.Didyma">I.Didyma</bibl> 482, lines 4-5 (where they were sold). A portion of the ribs seems to be offered in line 4; for such portions, cp. again here <ref target="CGRN_103">CGRN 103</ref> (Phrearrhioi), line 5.  Accordingly, we should also think of the portion called here νόθη, whose precise interpretation has escaped all of the editors of the text, in connection with the ribs of the animal. Indeed, νόθη was an adjective used to qualify πλεύρη (or πλευραί), and thus is a technical term of anatomy: the so-called "false ribs", especially the last two bones of the ribcage which are to some degree "floating", connected only to the vertebral column and unfused with the other ribs and the sternum; see esp. Paus. 1.35.6, or e.g. Aret. <title>SA</title> 2.6, for human anatomy. The portions envisaged here remain a bit unclear, though perhaps what was meant was a cut of meat "around the false rib", to be related or distinguished from the portion of the ribs mentioned immediately before. For further discussion of this interpretation and for ribs as sacrificial portions, see Carbon. For the head as a portion, mentioned in line 6, see here <ref target="CGRN_38">CGRN 38</ref> (Chios), line B7.</p>
						
<p>Fragment B</p>

<p>Lines B6-7: For the type of cake known as φθόϊς, cf. esp. <ref target="CGRN_76">CGRN 76</ref> (Erythrai), line 22.</p>
						
<p>Lines B8-10: If the restoration is correct (which seems plausible), then private individuals were allowed to keep the skins of sacrificed animals as their prerogative: cp. here <ref target="CGRN_39">CGRN 39</ref> (Miletos), lines 3-8. The portion or portions mentioned as "around the tongue" is intriguing and recalls the phrasing found in lines A4-6 for the false rib. Presumably what is meant here are portions of meat in the throat or around the mouth of the animal. For the left "cheek" (probably a side of the head) granted to a priestess on Chios, cf. here <ref target="CGRN_37">CGRN 37</ref>, line 11. The precise restoration at the end of line 9 remains problematic: were the aforementioned portions to be given "as the <foreign>polis</foreign> does also", or was this a reference to other portions, i.e. that the remainder of the portions was to be given "as the <foreign>polis</foreign> does"?</p>
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