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Aquae Sulis (Latin for Waters of Sulis) was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is the English city of Bath, Somerset . The Antonine Itinerary register of Roman roads lists the town as Aquis Sulis. [ 1 ]
The Roman baths and temple dedicated to the goddess Sulis Minerva in the English city of Bath (founded by the Romans as Aquae Sulis) were excavated between 1978 and 1983 by a team led by Barry Cunliffe and Peter Davenport. [1] In 1979/1980, around 130 tablets were discovered in an excavation of the "Sacred Spring" under the King's Bath. [2]
Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). [5] Sulis was likely venerated as a healing divinity, whose sacred hot springs could cure physical or spiritual suffering and illness. [6]
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 Roman road from Silchester to Bath connected Calleva Atrebatum with Aquae Sulis via Spinae , Cunetio (near Marlborough) and Verlucio (near Sandy Lane). [1] The road was a significant route for east–west travel and military logistics in south-east England during the 1st to 5th centuries.
In 1979–80, the Bath curse tablets were found at the site of Aquae Sulis (now Bath in England). [37] All but one of the 130 tablets concerned the restitution of stolen goods. [ 38 ] Over 80 similar tablets have been discovered in and about the remains of a temple to Mercury nearby, at West Hill, Uley , [ 39 ] making south-western Britain one ...
Tomlin published the first translation of the curse-tablets from the Roman Baths at Aquae Sulis (Bath, UK) in 1988. [3] Tomlin translated the Bloomberg tablets , a collection of 405 wooden tablets inscribed with ink, found between 2010 and 2013, during excavations for the Bloomberg building in London. [ 4 ]
Record of Ragnarok (Japanese: 終末のワルキューレ, Hepburn: Shūmatsu no Warukyūre, lit. ' Doomsday Valkyrie ') is a Japanese manga series written by Shinya Umemura and Takumi Fukui and illustrated by Azychika about a fighting tournament featuring prominent historical figures against gods from various mythologies, with the fate of mankind in the balance.