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The Pydna curse tablets are a collection of six texts or catalogues written in Ancient Greek that were found at the ruins of Pydna, a prominent city of ancient Macedon, between 1994 and 1997. They were discovered during the archaeological excavations of the Makrygialos cemetery and were first published by Curbera and Jordan in 2003. [ 1 ]
Eyguieres curse tablet. A curse tablet (Latin: tabella defixionis, defixio; Greek: κατάδεσμος, romanized: katadesmos) is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. Its name originated from the Greek and Latin words for "pierce" [1] and "bind". The tablets were used to ask the gods, place spirits, or the ...
The Mount Ebal curse tablet is a folded lead sheet reportedly found on Mount Ebal in the West Bank, near Nablus, in December 2019. The artifact, discovered by a team of archaeologists led by Scott Stripling, was found by wet-sifting the discarded material from Adam Zertal 's 1982–1989 archaeological excavation.
Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.
The Bath curse tablets are the most important record of Romano-British religion yet published. [34] Curse tablets are of particular use in evidencing the Vulgar Latin of everyday speech, [13] and, since their publication in 1988, the Bath inscriptions have been used as evidence of the nature of British Latin.
The post 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets Containing Evil Omens Finally Deciphered first appeared on Bored Panda. ... Researchers have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old tablets found more than ...
About 130 messages to Sulis scratched onto lead curse tablets have been recovered from the Sacred Spring by archaeologists. [4] Most of them were written in Latin, although one discovered was in Brythonic; they usually laid curses upon those whom the writer felt had done them wrong. This collection is the most important found in Britain.
The oldest known tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament sold on Wednesday for $5.04 million, more than double its high estimate.. The stone, which dates back around ...