Lead curse tablet (17044)

Found in the Porta Romana necropolis, tomb 11.
Date: second century AD. W. 0.235, h. 0.11.
This tablet was rolled up and features a curse targeting around thirty slaves or freed slaves, mostly women. The writer summons the help of the gods of the underworld and continues with a list of names. The exact curse can no longer be discerned, but certain typical words on the lines can be identified: ligo, "I tie/curse"; periant (= pereant), "let them perish"; ocidant (= occidant), "let them lose"; and tabescant, "let them rot".

[inf]ERIS [lig]O TVCIA CRECTA E(t) ANTONIA [---] A[---] E(t?) SILIO E(t) [---] D[e]XTERA MATER [---] D N [---]OC [-]C [-]NO MNE(s)TVS PERI(ant) ROGO ICIMAS MEVIA [---]R[---]A[---]ER[-]PE[---]LVS OC(c)IDANT RV(fa?) PAPRIA VNAESI(me) [---]V[---]LV[---]ITINE LV[p]VS [---]NNO [---]R[---]A COL(l)ICO MENDE(m) [---]TIT [-]E MONTA[-]LCE TABES(cant) PRIMIGENIA E(t) [---]RM[---]ACE [Re]STVTI RES{i}PECTI IVLIA FORT(u)NATA [---]O[---] [-]N EPIA SCANT[illa?] IVLIA PIA PERI(ant) [---]O [---]NTRI[---]M[---]T[---]

IVCVNDA MEVIA E[---]CE MVCAN[a] IVCVNDA [M]AEVIA PROCLA IV[li]A [T]RIPE(a) PROTE MINVCIA M[---] CUARTA ET FADIA NEREIS PO[---]STIDIA AVR(elia) M[u]SARIO [---]AEP[---]

Guida suppl. p. 31. EDCS-03300005. EDR031414. Photos: Karivieri 2020, cat. nr. 143.