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Document Details : Title: Water Nymphs on Curse Tablets from Fourth-Century CE Rome Subtitle: Rural Agents in an Urban Landscape? Author(s): FARAONE, Christopher A. Journal: Latomus Volume: 84 Issue: 2 Date: 2025 Pages: 244-259 DOI: 10.2143/LAT.84.2.3294646 Abstract : A handful of bilingual curse tablets offer us a unique window into the urbanization of cursing practices in fourth-century CE Rome, because they reveal how scribes creatively take an earlier, rural practice in Italy of asking water nymphs to punish or attack an enemy and combine it with a later, cosmopolitan Greek or Greco-Egyptian scribal tradition of inscribing lead curse tablets with elaborate and outlandish names and designs. |
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