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The Bath curse tablets are a collection of about 130 Roman era curse tablets (or defixiones in Latin) discovered in 1979/1980 in the English city of Bath. The tablets were requests for intervention of the goddess Sulis Minerva in the return of stolen goods and to curse the perpetrators of the thefts.
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]
About 130 curse tablets, mostly addressed to Sulis, have been found in the sacred spring at the Roman baths in Bath. [15] Typically, the text on the tablets offered to Sulis relates to theft; for example, of small amounts of money or clothing from the bath-house.
The Great Bath. Everything above the level of the pillar bases is of a later date. 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]
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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 ...
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