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LOT 1394
Western Asiatic Unopened Lead Scroll with Case Fragments
2ND-8TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/4 in. (41 grams total, scroll: 70 mm long).
Tightly coiled sheet-lead panel with neat inscription in an alphabetic script or abjad.
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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LOT 1394
Western Asiatic Unopened Lead Scroll with Case Fragments
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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