Curse tablet
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Owen Jarus’ interesting piece at Livescience is getting picked up all over the place … some excerpts: A lead curse tablet, dating back around 1,700 years and likely written by a magician, has been discovered in a collapsed Roman mansion in Jerusalem, archaeologists report. […] The text is written in Greek and, in it a…
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The BBC’s coverage of that curse tablet that was recently looked at by Roger Tomlin hinted that more work might be done on it (A Roman Curse Tablet from Kent (and a Phylactery from West Deeping)), and now we hear that there will be … from Kent Online: Work to conserve a Roman scroll believed…
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This just in from the BBC … the salient bits: A “curse tablet” made of lead and buried in a Roman farmstead has been unearthed in East Farleigh. Inscribed in capital letters are the names of 14 people, which experts believe were intended to have bad spells cast upon them. The tablet is being examined…
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