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Ancient Magician's Curse Tablet Discovered in Jerusalem
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists excavated a 1,700-year-old curse tablet from a Roman mansion.
A lead curse tablet, dating back around 1,700 years and likely written by a magician, has been discovered in a collapsed Roman mansion in Jerusalem, archaeologists report.
The text is written in Greek and, in it a woman named Kyrilla invokes the names of six gods to cast a curse on a man named Iennys, apparently over a legal case.
"I strike and strike down and nail down the tongue, the eyes, the wrath, the ire, the anger, the procrastination, the opposition of Iennys," part of the curse reads in translation. Kyrilla asks the gods to ensure that "he in no way oppose, so that he say or perform nothing adverse to Kyrilla - but rather that Iennys, whom the womb bore, be subject to her".
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-magicians-curse-tablet-discovered-jerusalem-175145399.html
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists excavated a 1,700-year-old curse tablet from a Roman mansion.
A lead curse tablet, dating back around 1,700 years and likely written by a magician, has been discovered in a collapsed Roman mansion in Jerusalem, archaeologists report.
The text is written in Greek and, in it a woman named Kyrilla invokes the names of six gods to cast a curse on a man named Iennys, apparently over a legal case.
"I strike and strike down and nail down the tongue, the eyes, the wrath, the ire, the anger, the procrastination, the opposition of Iennys," part of the curse reads in translation. Kyrilla asks the gods to ensure that "he in no way oppose, so that he say or perform nothing adverse to Kyrilla - but rather that Iennys, whom the womb bore, be subject to her".
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-magicians-curse-tablet-discovered-jerusalem-175145399.html