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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Roman "Curse Tablet" Discovered in England


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Archaeologists discovered this ancient Roman "curse tablet" in Leicester, England. The tablet, which was found near the ruins of a large Roman townhouse dating from the second century A.D., is a lead sheet bearing an inscription that asks a god to kill the thief who stole a man's cloak.

Photograph courtesy Trustees of the Haverfield Bequest