Inventory Number: | IL 2199 | |
Section Number: | Θ 2288 | |
Title: | Curse Tablet Fragment | |
Category: | Iron & Lead | |
Description: | No original edges preserved. Mostly covered in white patina. Bottom part crumbling and covered in brown patina. Adhered to a piece of gauze on the back side (ca. 1990's). Thick strip of lead. Some faint letters discernible on the top part. Some light blue color on front face and yellow color in letters preserved (possibly modern addition). | |
Notes: | Inventoried in October 2020 (J. Curbera). Note that over 40 curse tablets were found between 4.00m. to 9.20m. but not all were catalogued in 1933. Found with other tablets that David Jordan was reading from Well J 12:2. | |
Context: | Well | |
Notebook Page: | 1041, 1083 | |
PD Number: | DA 13704 | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 0.082; P.W. 0.082 | |
Chronology: | Late 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D. | |
Date: | 19-24 May 1933 | |
Section: | Θ | |
Grid: | Θ:34/ΛΑ | |
Elevation: | 4.00m.-9.20m. | |
Masl: | 4-9.2m. | |
Deposit: | J 12:2 | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 91 (2022), no. 19, pp. 134, 174-175, fig. 20, n. 3. | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 91 (2022) Drawing: DA 13704 Images (5) Deposit: J 12:2 |