http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/an-ancient-curse-revealed/ The online magazine of the Getty Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/an-ancient-curse-revealed/#comment-530381 Alexandra Sofroniew Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:13:10 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=10517#comment-530381 Thanks, Abigail. Great question!! Unfortunately I don't know for sure. I have only seen the one that is now on loan to the Villa. The tablets have been published in the American Journal of Archaeology (1979, pp. 463-4) but any similarities in the scripts wasn't mentioned. Even if they are by the same hand, it could be the hand of a scribe, paid to write the curses, since literacy levels were relatively low in antiquity. Thanks, Abigail. Great question!! Unfortunately I don’t know for sure. I have only seen the one that is now on loan to the Villa. The tablets have been published in the American Journal of Archaeology (1979, pp. 463-4) but any similarities in the scripts wasn’t mentioned. Even if they are by the same hand, it could be the hand of a scribe, paid to write the curses, since literacy levels were relatively low in antiquity.

]]> http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/an-ancient-curse-revealed/#comment-523319 Abigail S Graham Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:01:52 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=10517#comment-523319 V. interesting! Are the curse tablets for Venusta inscribed in the same hand?? V. interesting! Are the curse tablets for Venusta inscribed in the same hand??

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