Roman Curse Tablet From the Netherlands Studied - Archaeology Magazine
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Roman Curse Tablet From the Netherlands Studied - Archaeology Magazine
Roman-era curse tablet, Heerlen, Netherlands HEERLEN, THE NETHERLANDS—A curse tablet discovered in the southeastern Netherlands has been analyzed with reflectance transformation imaging and deciphered by Rodney Ast of the University of Heidelberg and his colleagues, according to a report in La Brújula Verde. The lead sheet, dated to the second century A.D., was discovered in a well in what had been the Roman military settlement of Coriovallum. I…
The tablet includes an invocation of divinities and demons with a conjuring spell—a kind of spell to bind or harm an enemy—along with three symbols intended to convey the message to supernatural forces. The curse tablet will be exposed at the Heerlen museum. The post They decipher a rare curse that unites Greece, Rome and Egypt first appeared on Cubadebate.
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