Note 36.3 — THE SCOPE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Reading edition
G. Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum2 (Leipsic, 1898-1901), vol. ii. pp. 284 sq., No. 584; Ch. Michel, Recueil d’Inscriptions Grecques (Brussels, 1900), p. 624, No. 728. The goddess was probably the Syrian Atargatis or Derceto, to whom fish were sacred (Xenophon, Anabasis, i. 4. 9). For more examples of these ancient Greek curses, see Ch. Michel, op. cit., pp. 877-880, Nos. 1318-1329. Compare W. H. D. Rouse, Greek Votive Offerings (Cambridge, 1902), pp. 337 sqq.