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Elkington stated that the find consisted of "up to 70 ring-bound books (codices) made of lead and copper. Many of them are sealed on all sides. Scrolls, tablets and other artefacts, including an incense bowl, were also found at the same site. Some of the lead pages are written in a form of archaic Hebrew script with ancient messianic symbols.
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.
Those curse tablets targeted at thieves or other criminals may have been more public, and more acceptable; some scholars even refuse to apply the word "curse" to such "positive" texts, preferring expressions such as "judicial prayers". [11] In 1979/1980, the Bath curse tablets were found at the site of Aquae Sulis (now Bath in England). [12]
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 Pella curse tablet is a text written in a distinct Doric Greek idiom, found in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedon, in 1986. [1] Ιt contains a curse or magic spell (Ancient Greek: κατάδεσμος, katadesmos) inscribed on a lead scroll, dated to the first half of the 4th century BC (c. 380–350 BC).
2,000-year-old Roman lead bars found in Spain shed light on ancient mining, study says. Brendan Rascius. May 14, 2024 at 11:21 AM. ... an ancient mining company active in the region.
The Larzac tablet is a lead curse tablet found in 1983 in the commune of L'Hospitalet-du-Larzac, Aveyron, southern France. It is now kept in the museum of Millau. It bears one of the most important inscriptions in the Gaulish language. The inscription is in Roman cursive on a lead tablet preserved in two fragments, dated to about 100 AD. It is ...
The tablets, which some believe to be cursed, are made of gold and silver and were found at the site, which is located in what is modern-day Serbia. An inscription on one of the tablets reads ...