Orphic Gold Tablets

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:artifacts
ancient Greek religious text
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Orphism
gptkbp:burialPlace deceased
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:Archaeological_Museum_of_Thessaloniki
gptkb:National_Archaeological_Museum,_Athens
gptkb:Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale_di_Napoli
gptkbp:date 3rd century BCE
4th century BCE
gptkbp:debatedBy interpretation of texts
gptkbp:discoveredBy 19th century
gptkbp:foundIn gptkb:Greece
gptkb:Southern_Italy
gptkbp:hasInscription instructions for the afterlife
gptkbp:hasWrittenFor initiates of Orphic Mysteries
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Orphic Gold Tablets
gptkbp:inscription epigram
avoidance of Lethe
directions to the soul
identification with Dionysus
instructions to the soul after death
passwords for the underworld
seeking the waters of Mnemosyne
gptkbp:language gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:material gptkb:gold
gptkbp:notableExample gptkb:Hipponion_tablet
gptkb:Petelia_tablet
gptkb:Thurii_tablet
gptkbp:numberKnown over 30
gptkbp:purpose funerary ritual
guide for the dead
gptkbp:referencedIn academic literature
Orphic scholarship
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Orphic_Hymns
gptkb:Orphic_Mysteries
gptkb:Dionysian_Mysteries
Greek funerary practices
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Orphism
gptkbp:shape thin gold foil
gptkbp:size small
gptkbp:studiedBy archaeologists
classicists
religious historians
gptkbp:theme afterlife
immortality
reincarnation
purification
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Orphism
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5