To browse Academia. Celia Sanchez Natalias. Defixiones, also known as curse tablets, are one of the most revealing sources for ancient magico-religious practices. In this volume, the reader will find a detailed catalogue that discusses curse tablets written in Latin and a wide range of local languages. The catalogue is preceded by a full introduction in which the main features of these inscriptions are discussed together with leading scholarship.
Such a detailed yet global study of these texts sheds light on various aspects of curses that vary on a regional basis, thus showing how this magico-religious technology was not only adopted but also adapted in new and creative ways by the local populations throughout the Roman West. Irene Salvo. Franco Luciani , Daniela Urbanova.
An opisthographic lead tablet from Nomentum, dating to the first half of the 1st century CE, contains two anatomical curses against a man side A and a female public slave side B. Whilst the curse against the man aimed to affect not only some parts of his body, but also his social and economic status, the one against the woman describes in detail only pieces of her body, with particular emphasis to her abdomen and genitals.
The first section of the paper aims to provide the status quaestionis of the study of this curse tablet, with particular regard to the epigraphic and linguistic aspects of the text. The second section sets out to offer a general overview of the role of female public slaves in the Roman world, which may allow a better contextualization of the meaning of the curse on side B.
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Daniela Urbanova. An opisthographic lead tablet from Nomentum, dating to the first half of the 1 century CE, contains two anatomical curses against a man side A and a female public slave side B. Peter Keegan. Is there an epigraphic equivalent to the so-called curse-tablet?
