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LOT 1032
Western Asiatic Lead Fragment with Inscription
2ND-8TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (11.4 grams, 51.5 mm).
Rectangular in plan with 15 lines of neatly inscribed text.
Provenance
Ex S.M. London collection, UK, 1970-1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Footnotes
The item was possibly meant to be what the Romans called a defixio or 'curse tablet', on which the magical malediction was recorded and then shut away (by being tightly rolled up) so that the victim could not find it or change it.
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