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  2. Bath curse tablets - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Aquae Sulis - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  4. Sulis - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Curse tablet - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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  7. Sorcery (goetia) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Chronicles of the Cursed Sword - Wikipedia

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    Divine realm: The realm where all the gods and demi-gods live. In the last 500 years, it was changed from a paradise to a land of blood by the Second Son. Demon realm: The realm where all the demons live. A brutal land where only the strongest survive.

  9. Roger Tomlin - Wikipedia

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    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 ]