Some Thoughts about the 'New' Gold Tablet from Pherai Author(s): Alberto Bernab Reviewed work(s): Source:

Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 166 (2008), pp. 53-58 Published by: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn (Germany) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20476511 . Accessed: 25/11/2012 07:52
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SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE

'NEW' GOLD

TABLET

FROM PHERAI

1.The 'new'gold tablet RobertParkerand Maria Stamatopoulouhave recently editeda gold tablet discovered in 1904 ina field near thehill Magoula Mati, close toPherai.I Itwas found an excava who presented byArvanitopoulos, in 1906.2The tablet, tionreport foralmosta century in the forgotten NationalArchaeological Museum in Athens,was rediscoveredin2000, together withArvanitopoulos'excavationdaybooks. According to the was foundinan osteotheke daybooks,thetablet which containedtheremains of a cremation, (repository) butbecause therepository was used by theownerof theplot as building was verydifficult to material, it recoverthecontext of thefind. The gold tabletis 7 cm longand 8mm wide and containstwo incomplete hexameters(theright part of thetablet Creases on itssurfacesuggestthatit was originally being lost). folded. According toP. J.Parsons,3the handof thetext'sinscriber belongs to the 'epigraphic' period, thatis, thelate4thcentury BC and the of the 3rd BC. beginning century The gold tablet has been publishedagain by Fritz Graf and Sarah I. Johnston, by FrancoFerrariand Lucia Prauscello,and bymyself in theappendixofmy editionof the Orphic testimonia and fragments.4 2. Text The gold tablet'stext(OF 495a) is as follows:
n1?1GP?PEJtQOC~flICTO)X0lQCOVCEXwOQYLC[ brfl]TQOCX0OVLaCThXCLgl%TQOCOQEL[

In a first are a fewdoubts: readingthere

rr?TE PE 3TQOCgVCT6OV 0l&COVc OQwl6Yc [- x X0OVlWC T?Xri xualMrlTQ9OC AT`LV1-TQoC Q?l[cC.

Two textual problemsremain:thefirst, that (u -) occupies a sedes TQ?kr metrica that requiresthesequence uu -; thesecond,how tocompletethefirst hexameter. For thefirst problem,theeasiest solutionis tosupposea fault byhaplography, and toreconstruct <Ta> and TO?kf, bothbeing dependent on FXw. tkXr. In thiscase, T? coordinates 9QyLa XCLon theotherhand coordinates and XOovcLac Ferrari-Prauscello propose For semantic tEkXcaL. OQ?l[c. MfTQolc Af'[tqTQOC reasons,thisismore difficult toaccept,because, accordingto thetranslation the of theseauthors, mystes states: 'I am able toperform therites', whereaswe expecta statement about theactual celebration of the rather thanthecapacityof the rites, mystes tocelebratethem.
We verb find ?X(l and ooQyLc together inAeschylus sense. Itmeans fr.57.1 Radt ceFvdc KoTvtofc themystes 'knows' 09QYl, 9XeLhas a double 'to have' because oQyL' exovT-c.5 The that is, he has seen

and experiencedthem. But frequently this 'possession'of rite becomesmore tangible because the mystes
The Spanish Ministry of Education and Science has given financial support for the research of this paper I am very grateful toAna Isabel Jim?nez San Crist?bal, Marco Santamar?a, Helena Project HUM2006-09403). Sarah Watson for their interesting suggestions regarding a former draft of the text. 1 2004 (actual date of publication 2007). Parker-Stamatopoulou (Consolider Bernab?, C and

2 Arvanitopoulos 1907.
3 Parsons Graf-Johnston 2007,

ap. Parker-Stamatopoulou 38-39;

2004,

5. 2007; Bernab? 2007, 456 (fr. 495a), henceforth I will quote the frag

Ferrari-Prauscello

ments of thiseditionas OF followedby a number. The tabletis includedalso inBernab?-Jim?nezSan Crist?bal 2008:158-160
and 266. 5 Ferrari-Prauscello conjecture 2007 this clear parallel on the basis that it is a conjecture by Nauck. It is, however, try to eliminate now Radt. Nauck's text is the of this confirmed tablet. accepted by judgment by

an

excellent

and was

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receives some objects, also called OQ9LU, which he keeps as a reminder of therites.Parallel examples can be adduced:Theocr. Idyll.26.13 ci,v 6' ?Ta6QUcF roc'Lv!lcv60oc OQy1L B6xXw96Catull. 64.259 obscura cavis ...orgia cistis,Seneca Herc. Oet. 594f. orgia ferre/ ... condita cistis;Propert.3.1.4 orgia l ferre; Clem. Al. Protr.2.22.4 (OF 590)OlCl XcL 6o & a XLCTcL pVcCTWXcL; 6l LAQ aylc TCL a'JTO7V!1VWCCl
?EUTav. acLiT(V Xzi T' &9ArQQqTo B acc('Qov ;7 OViCflCcAcli TtcdTa XUL JTVQUJJI&c ... XuA 6QUXwV, OQYlOv Awovucov

is a synonym On theotherhand,TO?kr as attestedinnumerouspassages.8 It is probable of UkXETcl, that has been preferred for metrical reasons. TPXk Lastly 09Qlc and ktcTaiare frequently So thereis no need to correct coordinated.9 inorder TFXri to 'avoid thepleonastic (if not tautological)juxtaposition It seems clear that of 0Qy7L/TFXn'.10 0Qyla a synonym a common sequence. In this and kXUTaf, of Te`k, constitute gold tablet both words are direct
objects of 9Xw, in an fU97XOlVOVOconstruction.11

The secondproblem is thelacunaafter Parker-Stamatopoulou consider BdxXov as a possible oQyLC. but reject it.Ferrari-Prauscello reading,12 consider thisreading 'highly unlikelyon both linguistic and 'I possess/bearthesacred rites/tokens syntactical They argue thatthestatement: grounds'13. ofBacchus' would in factbetterfita priest thanan initiate. can be applied to their This argument proposed eXw ... because if anyone is in a position to say 'I am able to performthe rites', thisought to be a tCUccLC, priest. On theother hand,Ferrari-Prauscello argue todemonstrate in thecults convincingly orphic influence ofDemeterChthonia both inCallatis andHermione,14and itcannotbe a coincidence thatinHermione was a cultofDionysusMelanaigis, relatedto theafterlife,15 there and thatinCallatis there was an active Dionysiac thiasos.16 I am scarcely convinced by the reading i6ofica proposed by Bouraselis,17because a 'transitive, resultative nor inarchaicepic. perfect'is neverdocumentedingold tablets

6 Cf. Henrichs 1969.

7 Turcan po?tes 1992, 220: 'le mot latins, dans 8 In addition l'?pigraphie a pris ... ? l'?poque le sens concret qu'on retrouve hell?nistique, ?Qyia et dans la litt?rature gr?co-romaine cf. also Motte-Pirenne-Delforge imp?riales', plus tard chez 1992. les

can also be made to the passages of Poll. 1.35 x? ?? 2004, 13, mention quoted by Parker-Stamatopoulou ... xeXexai xai T?Xr\ mjcxix? xai xe^ecioufjyiai, Max. Conf. In Dion. Areop. ep. 8.6 x? |xucxf)Qia |xucTf)Qia xai x? ?Qyia I cannot accept, however, the parallel ?n?Xovv. of the Pelinna gold tablet OF 485.7 which they adduce, x?Xr| xai xeXex?c I think that this verse must be read xeX?cac because in the critical apparatus of OF, and in cuteQ, for the reasons furnished Bernab?-Jim?nez 9 For 2.13.3 San Crist?bal D. H. 1.61.4 ?Qyia 2008, ?v?a xai 90-91. \ir\iQi Oecov leQ?v lOQUc?|U?voc ?Qyia Themist. Or. 349b 6 ?Q(()ea)c xai xeXex?c Clem. Al. Protr. xaxecxfjcaxo, xe xai opyia, Theodoret. 7.11 ai ?alJcxaLc Ei)u?}jtou, Eus.

xeXexai xai x? ?Qyia, IG II2 3639 c. 170AD

???oQxac PE 7.2.4 / UAJQLOV?v co(j)LT|L xD?oc x? ?QYLOt xai x?c ?c?jivouc 2007, 194.

example x? CauoOQatxcov

xeXex?c,

xeXex?c

/?c xeXex?c ?veyxauivoD, xeXex?c, Proel. Hymn. 4.15

Gr. App. 318) 1-3Mvf|jia xo?' uipuj)av?c An,[oD]c [?]a[xooJoio (Anth.

?Qyia ?v?^>r\ve xai o?ytcx xai xeXex?c. Jt?vvuxot

10 Ferrari-Prauscello 11

10 point out that in this case one would that the 2004, expect, rather, c()?rjco. But it is probable Parker-Stamatopoulou an because it is xoivo? has cut? construction. poet preferred ?x simply 12 10. 2004, Parker-Stamatopoulou 13 Ferrari-Prauscello find this statement a bit curious, since I have always considered 2007, 194; cf. also Ferrari 2007.1 syntax a part of linguistics. 14 Ferrari-Prauscello 2007, 197f.

15Cf. Jim?nezSan Crist?bal forthcoming.

16 Cf. Avram 17 Ap. 2002. 2004, 11. Parker-Stamatopoulou

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I prefer Baxxov, some in the aremany documentedinstances of 69yLoc B6xXov, a) because there same sedesmetrica,18and b) because there aremany connections betweenDionysus andDemeter and Persephoneboth in Hermione and inCallatis. I considerthatthe most plausible textis that Therefore, and published in theeditionofGraf-Johnston followed bymyself:
TQOC iVCTyOVOL6'COVC' ECxw J OQylA [BCxCoU 7tEPF, Af'L`lzQoC X)OVLAC <TE> Ti'Xr Xcl MrTQO6C 6Q9i[C.

I have19 thesacredsymbola Sendme to thethiasoi of theinitiates; and therites ofDemeterChthonia and the MountainMother. c 3. The Pherai gold tablet and 'O9QLx

Various different criteria suggestthatthegold tabletfrom Pherai shouldbe placed inanOrphic context. 3.1. The first isgeographical:thereis another gold tablet from Pherai,consideredclearly Orphic (OF have been foundinThessalian area: Pharsalos (OF 477) andPelinna (OF 485-486); the 493), and others were foundin leafkept in Malibu (OF 484) also comes from Thessaly,and others Macedonia. It isprob in thesamearea and in thesame time able that documents of thesamekind (cf. ? 3.2), in thesamecontext, to same context. the periodbelong religious we know, foundin tombsandwritteninhexameters(sometimes 3.2. The gold tablets mingledwith was to aid thedeceased to remember a textthat are orphic.20 short prose statements) Their function can influence ina specialplace in to receive initiates thegods of theunderworld Hades. This supposedly tablet has thesame function. 3.3.As regardsthespeakerand theaddresseeof thetext, have convincingly Parker-Stamatopoulou thespeakeris the whichmakes the deceased and theaddresseePersephone, Pherai tablet simi arguedthat lar to many other Orphic gold tablets.21 3.4. Parkerand Stamatopouloustate:22 now attested forthefirst time on a gold leaf, makes "OLucoL, more explicitthan do theotherexpressionsquoted23thattheblessed future envisagedby thesoul is as a
member of a group. It also strongly suggests that the dead person may have been a member of a olACOC ...

and thatthis membershipispartof his or herqualification fora blessed lot in theafterlife." Nevertheless,afterexaminingevidence about [VOCTCR and, despite thefact thatthis termis docu mented inOrphic gold tablets(Pherai, OF 493; Pella, OF 493b; Aigai, OF 496c-e andHipponion,OF near 1cxXoL), and despite theclear relationship 474.16 - in this latter, betweenOrphic and Bacchic a theauthors can bemade is that reach hypercritical "The onlycertainstatement that rites24, conclusion:25 thesoul's claim tobe sent tojoin the 'bandof initiates' must be based on an initiation which ithas itself undergone;as for thecharacter of thatinitiation, thedivine nameswhich follow showwhat iswas not notwhat it was." (Eleusinian initiation),
18 For B?xxou, the same (* indicates example Nonn. D. 44.219*, 45.25*, 46.81*, sedes m?trica): 46.107* ?Qyia Theoc. B?xxou, 26.13* ?Qyia B?x%oo, Macedonius cf. also other similar sequences and nn. 7 and 9. AP 11.63.1* 998 ?Qyia ?an%i

like E. Ba.

?Qyia, Thdt.HE 317 xai ol xoi) Aiovucou x? ?Qyia xexeXecu?voi.

19 In the double sense T know/I

20Cf. Bernab?-Jim?nez San Crist?bal

21 22 Parker-Stamatopoulou Parker-Stamatopoulou 414, 2004, 2004, 15-16 6-7. 8.

possess'.

Cf.

the statements

about ?Qyia

supra

2008, 179-205.

the other mystai and bacchoi advance, 'you too will go along the sacred way by which a will be from mortal Petelia OF 476.11 were', you 'you god 'you will reign with the other heroes', Pelinna OF 485.7 'and you will go under the earth, once you have accomplished the same rites as the other happy ones', Thurii OF 488-489.7 T come as a suppliant before chaste Persephone, to see if, benevolent, she may send me to the dwelling of the limpid ones'. 25

23 Se. OF Hipponion Thurii OF 488.9 glorious',

24OF 497-505.
Parker-Stamatopoulou 2004, 10.

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Alvarez has Santamaria Orphic gold tablet. however, does seem tobe documentedinanother OcLacoc, Thurii (OF in a leaf from 487.2):26 a difficult passage proposed a new readingfor
68ELOV? * 0 laC 6FlelVCCLEE+V a.VOV?V'

ones (m4 Xkacyvov Fa Xcka naWva) were word (&6lOv) and thefinal In thisseriesof letters thefirst as were proposed and sometimesthepassage was left readings clear,but fortherestsome unconvincing Alvarez proposes: Santamaria a locusdesperatus.27
6?LOV EC OL'C<OV> ?i C' L<V>VUL, +VXay

RCCkU7tVTC

well. very bearing in mind everything thiasos, You must go to theright is Metrical irregularity metrical,but twodactylicsequencesbadly assembled are visible. The verse isnot in thegold tablets. frequent mystes thegold tabletis 'a Netherworldand for the The OLicoc is thegroupof the initiatesin the which enables him tobe admittedin the locus amoenus reservedinHades for claim ofmembership'28 in somemysteriesrelatedtoan he is an initiate too, the mystesargues that Pherai tablet, this group. In the Orphic ambience. from Pelinna (OF 485-486.2): Thessalian gold tablets mentioned in two 3.5. Dionysus is clearly
dlU;lV ('FEQC+06vuL C' OTL BaXtocLC &UTOC ?VC?.

'vov ?V [taXca rAVTc

Amphipolis (OF 496n), a woman, definesherselfas theowner of a gold tabletfrom Furthermore, leaf from Pherai (OF 493) thenomensacrum AV69LX? A ovcov Buxxiov; in the other C ?VOIU y and in thatfrom Hipponion (OF 474.16) to Dionysos, is repeated, referring undoubtedly 3r;Cl6O0VQCoV, and P3/xxoL appear together.29 gVCTuL XOOVcl.One is a passage 3.6. Parker-Stamatopoulou exhaustively gatherquotationsof ANrWTfQ were taughttoworship Chthonian from Pausanias, according towhich theLakonians claim thatthey Demeter (40.12) XOoviLUappears inanOrphic hymnto theepithet Demeter byOrpheus.30Furthermore, Kore. Thurii,31is applied to before,ina gold tabletfrom and, severalcenturies editorsand of Demeter andM4TflQ oQiLa surprisedthe first 3.7. The presence in thisgold tablet of thegold Britishphilologists todoubt the Orphic character amongst fosteredthe traditional tendency with thefoundation ofmanymyster Orpheuswas associated But, asGraf-Johnston pointout,33 tablets.32 Gurob add thatthegroup recalls the And on p. 155 they of all kXETci).34 with thefoundation ies (in fact, ... .. ... . P?0C pantheon;cf.P. Gurob (OF 578): BQLWbo IQLXEJtayl7/ALOVVcoC. AuTjrflQ MiTiQ O'QcLCappears in several places35, but from theperspectiveof Orphica some are espe in a passage whose T O'Q?cLOl, Eur. Cret. fr. 472.13 Kannicht (= OF 567.13) MTQ cially significant: or theequivalent expressions (Kov0fQrlv)MrtQoc 6OQ?LoiVoiiC, Orphic characterseems evident36
26 Santamar?a genda) Alvarez, M. and by Bernab?-Jim?nez A., verbal communication. 2008, This proposal is accepted by Bernab? 2007, 455 (addenda et corri San Crist?bal 96, 258.

27 Cf. more details inBernab?-Jim?nez San Crist?bal 2008, 96 and 258.

28 Graf-Johnston 2007, 95. San Crist?bal 2008,154-155 y 2-53. 29 Cf. Bernab?-Jim?nez

30Paus. 3.14.5 (OF 533) AfjprjTQa ?? XOovtav Aaxe?aipovioi

31 Orph. H. 40.12 ci) xOovia, OF 492.8 ArjpfrteQ ... Koqt] X9ovta 32 West 1983, for example,

OQc))?a)c. p?v ce?eiv cj)aci Jtaoa?ovxoc ccjnciv

(Burkert :xaQrjx^ovia gold tablet).

ignores the gold tablets. It is very significant also that the first information offered by completely N.S. no 9 spring 2003 (http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/BES/newsletters/besnews9. R. Parker (British Epigraphy Society, Newsletter new unorphic gold tablet" and the report's end was: 'There is nothing Orphic here ... by the second half of was "A entitled pdf) to salvation had apparently multiplied.' routes the the date for the third century B.C. tablet) (the provisional possible 33 Graf-Johnston 34 Cf. Bernab? related to Orpheus. 1301ss. ... Hipp. \xaxx\Q (referring to Demeter), OQeta Ar. Av. 746 (invoked by the birds' and the Corybants), 144 (presented chorus), Hymn 2007, 121. b, with bibliography. The initiate mentioned them, probably convinced that all of them were

forthcoming

35 Cf. 14-15: E. Hel. 2004, Parker-Stamatopoulou as a goddess who can provoke madness, like Pan, Hecate Id. Dact. 8 and 23, Telest. fr. 6.2 Page, Poll. 5.13.

36Cf.

Parker-Stamatopoulou 2004, 8 quote the line 10 of the bibliographyquoted inOF 567. It is curious enough that
about Ai?c l?aiou p?cxrjc, but they do not highlight that in the same passage Mf]tr|Q o?eia ismentioned.

same

fragment,

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TE kUTQFcLV inOrph.H. 31.537or 0Q9CCL6Qgo0V toOrpheus' / MrTQO6Cin thereference 0QyLo0kQvtuCL works in Orph.A. 21s., or aThuriigold tablet (OF 492. 1) in whichKvPEXEFIcL<L> KOQQcC<L>... AihrITQoc arementioned.38 and especiallyFerrari-Prauscello offerinteresting 3.8. Parker-Stamatopoulou concern suggestions ing thecult to which this gold tabletshouldbe adscribed;Ferrari-Prauscello also pointoutmany orphic here to their connections, but I do not refer conclusions,because I thinkthatstable cultshave a minor importance in thestudy of thegold tablets. They do not seem tobe relatedto stablecults; theyare not foundin sanctuaries, but in tombs;they do not refertopublic cults,but are foundin theprivatesphere, and orpheotelestai craft39. practisean itinerant infavour Pherai gold tabletis itstotalcoin 3.9. The clearestargument of the of the Orphic character which theinitiate cidence with the schemaofmany othertablets, performative accordingto (or somebody a on his/her declares for the sake situation in the as of behalf) something claiming privileged underworld, amemberof a chosengroup to was alive.The elements while he/she of this which he/she belonged pattern can be seen in thefollowingtable:
Gold tablet Hipponion Petelia Pelinna Thurii 488 Thurii 489-90 Initiate'sdeclaration or declaration made on his behalf I am theson ofEarth and starry Heaven I am theson ofEarth and starry Heaven you have accomplished therites I come fromamong thepure,pure I belong toyourblessed race I come fromamong thepure,pure I belong toyourblessed race I have paid thepunishment password /the initiateis freefrom punishment keeping everything verywell I have celebrated therites/I possess
OQyLa

Place thatis claimed forhim thesacredway of other 'CTCcL rui xui PdxXo with theotherheroes reign go under theearth with theotherhappy ones and rebirth liberation conversion intoa god, reborn in the lap of thegoddess tobe accepted in thedwelling on the limpid ones toenter in thesacredmeadow togo to therightthiasos /conversion intoa meadows of Persephone god in the tobe accepted in the thiasosof initiates

Pherai 493 Thurii 487 Pherai 493a

There arealso close ties betweenthistablet and those ofPelinna. Inall of them Bakchos appearsas guarantor of thesoul's liberation andPersephoneas thegoddesswho can carryitout.Both in thistablet and inone from Pelinna ritesarementioned (Pelinna OF 485 TEX?cCc `neQ,Pherai t?Xiq). 4. Conclusion The tablet which are characteristic from Pherai shows thesame features of the Orphic ambience:vocabu lary, geographicorigin,time, archaeologicalcontext, material,divinities, function, metricalpatterns and an Orphic context. The conclusion,therefore performative scheme. Moreover nothingin itcontradicts cannotbe otherthantoaccept its Orphic provenance.
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