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Pella Katadesmos, a katadesmos is a curse, or magic spell. It was inscribed on this lead scroll, which dates to the 4th or 3rd century BC.
It was found in Pella (the time capital of Macedon, at the time) in 1986 and was published in the Hellenic Dialectology Journal in 1993.
The language is recognizable form of North-West or Doric Greek, and the low social status of its writer, as evidenced by her vocabulary and belief in magic, strongly demonstrate that a form of Doric Greek was spoken by lay people in Pella and ancient Macedonia at the time the tab was written.
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Thu March 16, 2006 8:02pm
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References:
PDF new Greek Curse Tablets:
http://www.duke.edu/web/classics/grbs/jordan.pdf
"History of the Greek Language", Greek Literary and Historical Archive, Athens 1999, ISBN 960-201-122-X
C. Brixhe, A. Panayotou, Le Macédonien in: Langues indo-européennes, ed. Bader, Paris, 1994, 205–220.
The Macedonian Language:
http://www.ucc.ie/staff/jprodr/macedonia/macanclan.html
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" ...Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you..."
Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander II, 14, 4 (Loeb, P. A. Brunt) - 95-175 AD
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Mon March 20, 2006 12:09am
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