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LOT 1059
Aramaic Lead Magical Text Scroll
2ND-8TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/4 in. (25.2 grams, 14.5 cm).
A rectangular sheet-lead panel with columns of lightly incised Aramaic text; the sheet originally rolled tightly.
Provenance
Acquired 1979-1999.
London collection of the late Mr S.M., thence by descent.
Footnotes
The item 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 it or negate it.
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