Bibliography
Emmanuel
Dupraz
Contributions to journals
Dupraz, Emmanuel, “Commémorations cultuelles gallo-grecques chez les Volques Arécomiques”, Études Celtiques 44 (2018): 35–72.
abstract:
[FR] L’article étudie neuf inscriptions gallo-grecques provenant du territoire des Volques Arécomiques, qui ont pour trait commun de figurer toutes sur l’abaque d’un chapiteau dorique. Nous émettons l’hypothèse que cette communauté de support renvoie à une communauté de fonction et qu’il s’agit dans les neuf cas de commémorations de dédicaces cultuelles ; nous proposons pour étayer cette hypothèse des remarques sur le contenu linguistique des inscriptions concernées. Le cas de l’inscriptionRIG, G-163, de Beaucaire, est le plus complexe en raison de la richesse du texte.
[EN] Gallo-Greek commemorations of dedications from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici.The paper deals with nine Gallo-Greek inscriptions from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici, which are all engraved on the abacus of a Doric capital. It is hypothesised that the use of the same kind of material support for all these inscriptions points to a common function for all the corresponding texts and that all nine inscriptions are to be regarded as religious dedications. A tentative analysis of the texts themselves is proposed to substantiate this claim. The comparatively long inscription RIG, G-163, from Beaucaire, raises the most difficult problems.
[EN] Gallo-Greek commemorations of dedications from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici.The paper deals with nine Gallo-Greek inscriptions from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici, which are all engraved on the abacus of a Doric capital. It is hypothesised that the use of the same kind of material support for all these inscriptions points to a common function for all the corresponding texts and that all nine inscriptions are to be regarded as religious dedications. A tentative analysis of the texts themselves is proposed to substantiate this claim. The comparatively long inscription RIG, G-163, from Beaucaire, raises the most difficult problems.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 44, 2018: <link>
abstract:
[FR] L’article étudie neuf inscriptions gallo-grecques provenant du territoire des Volques Arécomiques, qui ont pour trait commun de figurer toutes sur l’abaque d’un chapiteau dorique. Nous émettons l’hypothèse que cette communauté de support renvoie à une communauté de fonction et qu’il s’agit dans les neuf cas de commémorations de dédicaces cultuelles ; nous proposons pour étayer cette hypothèse des remarques sur le contenu linguistique des inscriptions concernées. Le cas de l’inscriptionRIG, G-163, de Beaucaire, est le plus complexe en raison de la richesse du texte.
[EN] Gallo-Greek commemorations of dedications from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici.The paper deals with nine Gallo-Greek inscriptions from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici, which are all engraved on the abacus of a Doric capital. It is hypothesised that the use of the same kind of material support for all these inscriptions points to a common function for all the corresponding texts and that all nine inscriptions are to be regarded as religious dedications. A tentative analysis of the texts themselves is proposed to substantiate this claim. The comparatively long inscription RIG, G-163, from Beaucaire, raises the most difficult problems.
[EN] Gallo-Greek commemorations of dedications from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici.The paper deals with nine Gallo-Greek inscriptions from the territory of the Volcae Arecomici, which are all engraved on the abacus of a Doric capital. It is hypothesised that the use of the same kind of material support for all these inscriptions points to a common function for all the corresponding texts and that all nine inscriptions are to be regarded as religious dedications. A tentative analysis of the texts themselves is proposed to substantiate this claim. The comparatively long inscription RIG, G-163, from Beaucaire, raises the most difficult problems.
Dupraz, Emmanuel, “Bemerkungen über die altkeltischen Fluchrituale: zum Blei von Chartres und einem lateinischen Fluchtäfelchen mit Formeln keltischen Ursprungs”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 65 (2018): 83–122.
abstract:
This paper deals with the Gaulish defixio from Chartres and more generally with the Celtic tradition of malediction rituals in Antiquity, as documented by the defixiones from Chartres, Larzac and Chamalières and by contact features in Latin defixiones from the Celtic speaking provinces. It is argued that this tradition, as opposed to the Latin one, systematically advocated that the malediction ritual was performed as a defensive measure against a former malediction by the cursed persons. The same lexemes are used to refer to the cursed persons and to the performer of the cursing ritual: this stylistic device emphasises that the defixio is to be regarded as a counter-malediction.
abstract:
This paper deals with the Gaulish defixio from Chartres and more generally with the Celtic tradition of malediction rituals in Antiquity, as documented by the defixiones from Chartres, Larzac and Chamalières and by contact features in Latin defixiones from the Celtic speaking provinces. It is argued that this tradition, as opposed to the Latin one, systematically advocated that the malediction ritual was performed as a defensive measure against a former malediction by the cursed persons. The same lexemes are used to refer to the cursed persons and to the performer of the cursing ritual: this stylistic device emphasises that the defixio is to be regarded as a counter-malediction.
Dupraz, Emmanuel, “Sur la formule d’introduction du Plomb du Larzac”, Études Celtiques 39 (2013): 193–210.
abstract:
[FR] La plus longue inscription gauloise connue à ce jour, le Plomb du Larzac, commence par une formule d’introduction pour laquelle nous proposons une analyse linguistique et stylistique. Selon nous, cette formule comporte deux groupes nominaux parallèles introduits par la préposition in, «dans, contre» ; le premier est une attaque contre un charme attribué à des sorcières ; le second est une attaque stylistiquement parallèle contre le nom de ces sorcières. L’existence de pareilles formules de protection ou d’agression, d’abord à propos d’une entité, puis à propos d’un nom lié à cette entité, est bien documentée dans les Tables Eugubines, un des monuments les plus riches que nous possédions pour les religions italiques, et il peut y avoir eu une circulation de formules entre langues italiques et langues celtiques pour ce genre de texte.
[EN] On the introductory formula of the Larzac tablet.
The longest Gaulish inscription known at the present day, the Larzac lead tablet, begins with an introductory formula, for which I suggest a linguistic and stylistic analysis. In my opinion, this formula contains two parallel noun phrases, introduced by the preposition in, «in, against» ; the first one is directed against a spell attributed to several witches ; the second one, composed in a syntactically parallel way, is directed against the name of these witches. This kind of protecting or aggressive formulae, first towards an entity, then towards a name linked with the latter, is well attested in the Iguvian Tables, one of the richest documents we have on Italic religions, and formulaic models may have circulated between Italic and Celtic languages for such textual genres.
[EN] On the introductory formula of the Larzac tablet.
The longest Gaulish inscription known at the present day, the Larzac lead tablet, begins with an introductory formula, for which I suggest a linguistic and stylistic analysis. In my opinion, this formula contains two parallel noun phrases, introduced by the preposition in, «in, against» ; the first one is directed against a spell attributed to several witches ; the second one, composed in a syntactically parallel way, is directed against the name of these witches. This kind of protecting or aggressive formulae, first towards an entity, then towards a name linked with the latter, is well attested in the Iguvian Tables, one of the richest documents we have on Italic religions, and formulaic models may have circulated between Italic and Celtic languages for such textual genres.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 39, 2013: <link>
abstract:
[FR] La plus longue inscription gauloise connue à ce jour, le Plomb du Larzac, commence par une formule d’introduction pour laquelle nous proposons une analyse linguistique et stylistique. Selon nous, cette formule comporte deux groupes nominaux parallèles introduits par la préposition in, «dans, contre» ; le premier est une attaque contre un charme attribué à des sorcières ; le second est une attaque stylistiquement parallèle contre le nom de ces sorcières. L’existence de pareilles formules de protection ou d’agression, d’abord à propos d’une entité, puis à propos d’un nom lié à cette entité, est bien documentée dans les Tables Eugubines, un des monuments les plus riches que nous possédions pour les religions italiques, et il peut y avoir eu une circulation de formules entre langues italiques et langues celtiques pour ce genre de texte.
[EN] On the introductory formula of the Larzac tablet.
The longest Gaulish inscription known at the present day, the Larzac lead tablet, begins with an introductory formula, for which I suggest a linguistic and stylistic analysis. In my opinion, this formula contains two parallel noun phrases, introduced by the preposition in, «in, against» ; the first one is directed against a spell attributed to several witches ; the second one, composed in a syntactically parallel way, is directed against the name of these witches. This kind of protecting or aggressive formulae, first towards an entity, then towards a name linked with the latter, is well attested in the Iguvian Tables, one of the richest documents we have on Italic religions, and formulaic models may have circulated between Italic and Celtic languages for such textual genres.
[EN] On the introductory formula of the Larzac tablet.
The longest Gaulish inscription known at the present day, the Larzac lead tablet, begins with an introductory formula, for which I suggest a linguistic and stylistic analysis. In my opinion, this formula contains two parallel noun phrases, introduced by the preposition in, «in, against» ; the first one is directed against a spell attributed to several witches ; the second one, composed in a syntactically parallel way, is directed against the name of these witches. This kind of protecting or aggressive formulae, first towards an entity, then towards a name linked with the latter, is well attested in the Iguvian Tables, one of the richest documents we have on Italic religions, and formulaic models may have circulated between Italic and Celtic languages for such textual genres.
