786. Defixio – Corduba (Córdoba)
Description
Dionisia Denatiai(!) / ancilla rogat deibus(!) ego / rogo bono(m) bono(m) / deibus(!) rogo oro bono(m) / einfereis(!) bono(m) Salpin{i}a(m) / rogo oro bonis inferis / ut dio(r)so(m) quod fit deibus(!) / inferabus ut hoc quo(d) sit / causa et (h)ec quod votum / feci ut solva(s) rogo / ut illam ducas rogo / oro
Code
786
Title
786. Defixio – Corduba (Córdoba)
Text of the inscription
Dionisia Denatiai(!) / ancilla rogat deibus(!) ego / rogo bono(m) bono(m) / deibus(!) rogo oro bono(m) / einfereis(!) bono(m) Salpin{i}a(m) / rogo oro bonis inferis / ut dio(r)so(m) quod fit deibus(!) / inferabus ut hoc quo(d) sit / causa et (h)ec quod votum / feci ut solva(s) rogo / ut illam ducas rogo / oro
Other name
Dionisia Denatiai ancilla rogat deibus ego rogo bonom bonom deibus rogo oro bonom einfereis bonom Salpiniam rogo oro bonis inferis ut diorsom quod fit deibus inferabus ut hoc quod sit causa et hec quod votum feci ut solvas rogo ut illam ducas rogo oro
Translation by Sánchez Natalías 2022:
"Dionysia, slave of Dentatia, asks the gods: I ask a good, a good of the gods, I ask and beg a good of the gods of the underworld for Salpina; I ask that she be offered down to the gods of the underworld; she is the reason and for whom I have made this vow. I ask that you fulfil it. I ask and beg that you take her."
"Dionysia, slave of Dentatia, asks the gods: I ask a good, a good of the gods, I ask and beg a good of the gods of the underworld for Salpina; I ask that she be offered down to the gods of the underworld; she is the reason and for whom I have made this vow. I ask that you fulfil it. I ask and beg that you take her."
Textual source
HEpOL 3825
Number of deities
Indeterminate plural
Onomastic attribute 1
Theonym 2
Institutions and individuals involved
2
Dedicant/s
Other individuals
Terminus post quem
-100
Terminus ante quem
100
Location
Coordinates
37,884683, -4,779171
Hep
HEp 2000, 163 = HEp 2014/15, 300
Support
Defixio
Size (cm)
5 x 7 cm
Letters: 0.2–0.3 cm
Letters: 0.2–0.3 cm
Material
Lead
CIL
CIL II/7, 250
AE
AE 1934, 23 = AE 2014, 648
Further bibliography
Kropp, A. 2008. Defixiones. Ein aktuelles Corpus lateinischer Fluchtafeln, Speyer: 2.2, 3.1.
Sánchez Natalías, C. 2022. Sylloge of defixiones from the Roman west. A comprehensive collection of curse tablets from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE, Band 2. Oxford, 13 and 122.
Urbanova, D. 2018. Latin curse tablets of the Roman Empire. Innsbruck, no. 53.
EDH
EDCS
TM
HEpOL
Other links
Image
Last update
2025-07-02
Author
Beatriz Pañeda Murcia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)