Tuesday, July 10, 2012
A Prohibition of Tree Cutting
Aslak Rostad, Human Transgression - Divine Retribution: a study of religious transgressions and punishments in Greek cultic regulations and Lydian-Phrygian reconciliation inscriptions (diss. Bergen 2006), lists most of the sacred laws regulating tree cutting (pp. 118-122), but I miss a reference to
Inscriptiones Graecae V,1 1390 (Andania in Messenia, 92/91 B.C.) = F. Sokolowski, Lois sacrées des cités grecques (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1969), #65, lines 78-80.
For the Greek text and English translation of the relevant lines from this inscription see Laura Gawlinski, The Sacred Law of Andania: A New Text with Commentary (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012), pp. 80-81:
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For the Greek text and English translation of the relevant lines from this inscription see Laura Gawlinski, The Sacred Law of Andania: A New Text with Commentary (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012), pp. 80-81:
About Those Cutting Wood in the Sanctuary: No one is to cut wood from the sacred place, and if anyone is caught, a slave must be flogged by the sacred men, but a free man must be fined as much as the sacred men decide. The one catching transgressors must bring them to the sacred men and is to receive half the fine.Gawlinski's commentary on these lines starts on p. 184, but pp. 185-189 are not available in Google Books and so are not available to me.
περὶ τῶν κοπτόντων ἐν τῶι ἱερῶι. μηθεὶς κοπτέτω ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τόπου· ἂν δέ τις ἁλῶι, ὁ μὲν δοῦλος μαστιγούσθω ὑπὸ τῶν ἱερῶν, ὁ δὲ ἐλεύθερος ἀποτεισάτω, ὅσον κα οἱ ἱεροὶ ἐπικρίνωντι· ὁ δὲ ἐπιτυχὼν ἀγέτω αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τοὺς ἱεροὺς καὶ λαμβανέτω τὸ ἥμισυ.
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