May 30, 2007

A Curse Tablet..

Archaeologists have discovered a rather intact Curse Tablet from a Roman-era household in Britain. Apparently if someone had a reason to curse another person (such as a thief), they could pay for a curse tablet to be made against a person for a crime or action against the wronged. Generally these scribed thin sheets of lead were rolled and then tacked to the wall of a temple or shrine as an appeal to the gods to punish the wrongdoer. Rolled sheets were fragile and had a tendency to deteriorate quickly but the one found in Britain was either not used after being scribed or it just wasn't rolled up like others. In any case, it's in a good enough to condition to be readable.

My question is, can I get one for use at work? Sometimes I would like to curse my coworkers and that would pretty handy....

(I'll go polish my halo now...)

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