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LOT 0941
Aramaic Lead Amuletic Sheet with Magical Text
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (4.34 grams, 41 mm).
A roughly rectangular sheet-lead panel with columns of lightly incised Aramaic text of magical subject matter; the sheet originally rolled tightly.
Provenance
Acquired 1969-1999.
London collection of the late Mr S.M., thence by descent.
Footnotes
The sheet was possibly meant to be a defixio or curse tablet on which the malediction was recorded and then shut away (by being tightly rolled up), so that the victim could not find or negate it.
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