A diminutive lead object, measuring about an inch on each side, was discovered in 2019 during the sifting of earlier excavation dumps from the site of Mt. Ebal in the West Bank. Shortly thereafter, a group of scholars asserted this lead “tablet” contained a Hebrew inscription from the end of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400–1200 BCE).

Drawing of the folded lead tablet, showing the team’s reconstruction of the tablet’s interior text. Cust. Service. Want More Bible History? Sign up to receive our e-mail newsletter and never …

2022年4月27日 · The lead tablet was found by wet-sifting material from Adam Zertal’s excavations of the cultic site on Mt. Ebal, which took place in the 1980’s. Epigraphers, Dr. Gershon Galil and Dr. Peter Van der Veen, described …

A curse from Bath was written on a pewter plate. Beyond Britain tablets have also been found in the shape of human figures or, in one instance, of racehorses, representing the targets of the curse. The majority of the Uley tablets however are irregular shaped pieces of lead, crudely hammered out to form an uneven writing surface.

2024年8月15日 · This is the only Bath tablet to be given a carefully centred heading (1-4) like a monumental inscription. This and the beauty of the writing tempt one to see a connection between Docilianus (if Bruceti , see below) and the scultor Sulinus Bruceti f.

Curse tablets are typically very thin sheets of lead with the text scratched on in tiny letters. They were then often rolled, folded, or pierced with nails, and the tablets were then usually placed beneath the ground: either buried in graves or tombs, thrown into wells or pools, sequestered in underground sanctuaries, or nailed to the walls of ...

2025年1月8日 · They do, however, include texts inscribed on sheets of lead and thrown into a sacred spring: six tablets from the principal hot spring at Amélie-les-Bains (see J. Coromines, ‘Les Plombs Sorothaptiques d’Arles’ , Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie xci (1975), 1—53) and another from a mineral spring at Chamalières (published by M ...

The Bath curse tablets are a collection of about 130 Roman era curse tablets (or defixiones in Latin) discovered in 1979/1980 in the English city of Bath. The tablets were requests for intervention of the goddess Sulis Minerva in the return of stolen goods and to curse the perpetrators of the thefts.

Whilst the British curse tablets draw on a common Greco-Roman tradition, they show some particularities in comparison to similar texts from other provinces. Appeals for the punishment of theft account for the vast majority of British texts, but elsewhere writers of tablets also aimed to influence the course of love affairs, to sway the outcome ...

Curse tablets first came to scholarly attention in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Lydney tablet, found in 1805, is the earliest recorded find from Britain. Ever since, scholars have been reading and publishing the tablets from individual excavations and collecting corpora of curses from different sites.