Christian funerary curse
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Fifth-sixth century.
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Bibliography

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ἀνάθεμα ἔϲται ἀπὸ Πατρὸϲ καὶ Υἱοῦ καὶ Ἁγίου Πνεύματοϲ ἤ τιϲ ὧδε θάπτει ἤ τινα ξένον

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: ΑΝΑΘ ΝΑΕΕΤΑ | ἀνάΘ[εμ]α ἔ[ϲ]τα[ι] | ἀνάθημά ἐστι [; so SEG.]]

[^a2: at 2: ΑΠΟΠΙϹΚΑΙωΚΟ | ἀπόπιϲ[θεν] καὶ οὐκέ-]

[^a3: at 3: ΓΙΟΥΠΙ ΓΙΤϹΟΔΟ | τ̣ι οὔπω μή τις ὁδε[υτὴν] | τ̣ι οὔπω μή τις ῟οδε]

[^a4: at 4: ΘΑΠΤΕΙΗ ΤΙΞΕΝΟΝ | θάπτειν μή τι(να) ξένον | θαπτείη τι[ν]α ξένον | θάπτει ἤ τι[ν]α ξένον]

Translations

There will be a curse from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit if anyone were to bury a stranger here.

There will be a curse from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit if anyone buries a stranger here.

Commentary

Line 1: With anathema we would commonly find the imperative, ἔστω; but Pacho read the alpha of ἔσται; Oliverio saw an uncertain iota. Line 2: The form of the curse is paralleled on a tomb-stone from Beer-Sheba, dated in CE 588, SEG 34.1469, available at PHI 320108.