Currently not on view
Curse tablet,
3rd–6th century CE
Byzantine
Late Antiquity, ca. 476–700 CE
2011-150
Information
Title
Curse tablet
Dates
3rd–6th century CE
Medium
Lead
Dimensions
7.8 x 2.1 cm (3 1/16 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University
Object Number
2011-150
Place Excavated
Turkey, Antioch on the Orontes
Period
Type
Materials
Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939
- William Alexander Campbell, "The third season of excavation at Antioch-on-the-Orontes", American journal of archaeology 40, no. 1 (Jan.–Mar., 1936): p. 1-10., p. 2
- Donald N. Wilber, Antioch-on-the-Orontes II: the excavations 1933 –1936, ed., Richard Stillwell, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press; The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1938)., p. 148
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John H. Humphrey, "Prolegomena to the study of the Hippodrome at Caesarea Maritima", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
No. 213 (Feb., 1974): p. 2-45., p. 40 -
D.R. Jordan, "A survey of Greek defixiones not included in the special corpora", Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies 26, no. 2 (Summer, 1985): p. 151-197.
, p. 193 - Florent Heintz, "Magic tablets and the games at Antioch", in ed. Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: the lost ancient city, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2000)., cat. no. 53; pg. 165 (illus.).
- Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: the lost ancient city, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).
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Alexander Hollmann, "A curse tablet from the circus at Antioch", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003): p. 67-82.
, p. 69-71 - "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2011," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 75-132., p. 99-100 (illus.)
