Magica Levantina: An edition of mainly unpublished Greek magical inscriptions from the late ancient Levant, with a web portal containing photographic, desriptive and textual documentation of the objects

该项目的目标是完成Magica Levantina(ML)项目的第一卷，以及一个ML Web门户。第一卷现在计划包含37个主要未出版的希腊魔法文本(主要是咒语)，写在来自黎凡特的金属碑(公元三-六)上。门户网站将提供摄影文件、描述性信息、文本和翻译。这些文本正在按照传统的文献学方法进行编辑。另一方面，门户网站的特点是技术新颖，至少在希腊语和拉丁语金石学领域，通过将反射变换成像(RTI)创建的平板电脑的照片文件直接提供给公众。最初的计划是Vol。我和网站的相应部分将在2019年3月之前完成，如果延长2年，整个项目就可以完成。但计划不得不修改，部分原因是破译大量非常困难的文本需要时间。第一卷和门户网站的相应部分应在2020年3月前完成。这项工作的其余部分将提交一份新的提案。ML第一卷将包含20块希腊咒碑，它们是1994年美国人在凯撒利亚马里蒂玛海角宫殿挖掘时发现的，由以色列文物局收藏；另一块来自凯萨里亚的咒语是私人收藏的；11块希腊咒碑(和一块阿拉姆咒碑)收藏在普林斯顿大学艺术博物馆，自从1934年法美安提阿及附近地区的挖掘过程中发现以来，它们大多没有出版；以及4个不同来源的黎凡特护身符。所有这些文本都为希腊、埃及、犹太人和奥菲尔宗教的各种混合提供了新的文献，这些宗教是晚期古董魔法的特征。它们还包含了各种各样的细节，为了解古代世界的广泛方面提供了新的线索。这里有几个例子：在一些药片中不仅发现了已知类型的药膏(如人发)，还发现了未知类型的药膏(鼠尾草、毛虫遗骸)，所有这些都具有神奇的意义。在安提阿的一所房子里发现了四个对商人的诅咒，这表明他们在那所房子里有商店。马戏团对命名的马匹和车夫的咒骂千差万别：有些首次表明车夫还有其他职业；另一些则引用了迄今未知的新柏拉图来源；还有另一种被证明包含了唯一已知的用犹太阿拉姆语写成的咒语。保护女性免受癫痫侵袭的护身符是古希腊已知的最小的显微照相术。对凯撒利亚一名哑剧舞者的诅咒写于公元400年左右，具有重要的历史意义，因为根据其他一些证据，它表明托勒密王朝在500年前统治该地区时，将埃及的鳄鱼崇拜引入了巴勒斯坦。

The goal of the project is to complete Vol. 1 of the project Magica Levantina (ML) together with a ML Web Portal. Vol. 1 is now planned to contain 37 mainly unpublished Greek magical texts (mostly curses) written on metal tablets (III–VI AD) from the Levant. The Web Portal will present photographic documentation, descriptive information, texts and translations. The texts are being edited according to traditional philological methodology. The Web Portal, on the other hand, features a technological novelty, at least in the fields of Greek and Latin epigraphy, by making photographic documentation of the tablets created by Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) directly available to the public. It had originally been planned that Vol. I and the corresponding part of the Website would be finished by March 2019 and that with a 2-year extension the entire project could be completed. But plans have had to be revised partly owing to the time needed to decipher the great amount of very difficult text. Vol. 1 and the corresponding part of the Web Portal should be completed by March 2020. A new proposal will be submitted for the remainder of the work.ML Vol. 1 will contain 20 Greek curse tablets found in 1994 during American excavations at Promontory Palace in Caesarea Maritima and housed in the Israel Antiquities Authority; another curse from Ceasarea in a private collection; 11 Greek curse tablets (and an Aramaic one) housed in Princeton University Art Museum, mostly unpublished since they were found in 1934–35 during the Franco-American Antioch-and-Vicinity Excavations; and 4 amulets of diverse Levantine provenance.All these texts provide new documentation for various mixtures of the Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, and Orphic religions that characterize late antique magic. They also contain a great variety of details that shed new light on a broad spectrum of aspects of the ancient world. Here a few examples: Not only known types of materia magica (e.g., human hair) but also unknown types (sage, caterpillar remains), all with magical significance, were found with some of the tablets. Four curses against business men found in a single house in Antioch suggest that they had shops in that house. The circus curses, against named horses and charioteers, vary greatly: some show for the first time that charioteers had other professions as well; others cite a hitherto unknown Neoplatonic source; and yet another turns out to contain the only known curse written in Jewish Aramaic. An amulet to protect a women against epilepsy is the smallest known example of ancient Greek micrography. A curse against a pantomime dancer in Caesarea, written about 400 AD, is historically significant, for with a few other bits of evidence it suggests that the Ptolemies introduce the Egyptian crocodile cult into Palestine when they ruled the area 500 years earlier.