Agora Object: IL 2199
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