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As well as Uley,
the website also presents editions of tablets from other temples around the
Severn estuary at Lydney, Brean Down and Pagans Hill, Leuntwardine, Chesterton,
Marlborough, Wanborough and the Hamble estuary, as well as tablets from
southern Britain without a certain provenance. The following pages list and
acknowledge the published sources from which these are taken and describe any
modifications made to the texts. A supplementary list is provided of all
other curse tablets and other ‘magical documents’ from Roman Britain from which
texts have been published up to 2002.
Sources of tablets in this website
Uley, Gloucestershire (The
numbers given below are those used by Roger Tomlin in his 1993 report on the
tablets published in the excavation volume).
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Uley 1-5
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Tomlin, R.S.O. 1993 Votive objects: the inscribed lead
tablets, in Woodward, A. and Leach, P. The Uley Shrines. Excavation of a
ritual complex on West Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, 1977-79, London: English Heritage, 113-130 (nos.1-5)
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Uley 43
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Hassall,
M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1989. Roman Britain in 1988? Britannia 20, 329-31, No. 3
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Uley 72
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1992. Roman Britain in
1991? Britannia 23, 310-311, no. 5
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Uley 86
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1993. Roman Britain in
1992? Britannia 24, 310-11 no. 1
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Uley 33, 49, 55, 76
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1995. Roman Britain in
1994? Britannia 26, 371-379, nos1-4. 4
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Uley 80
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1996. Roman Britain in
1995? Britannia 27, 439-441, no. 1
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Uley 50
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1998. Roman Britain in
1997? Britannia 29, 433-434, no. 1
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Brean Down, Somerset
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Hassall,
M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1986. Roman Britain in 1985, Britannia 17, 433-435, no. 6
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Caerleon, Gwent
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RIB 323 (including
addenda to the 2nd edition)
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Chesterton, Warwickshire
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RIB 243
M.W.C.Hassall,
R.S.O.Tomlin 1989. Roman Britain in 1988, Britannia 20, 344-345, addenda et
corrigenda (a)
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Gloucestershire/Avon (No
Provenance A)
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Hassall M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1991. Roman Britain in 1990, Britannia 22, 293-295, no. 1
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Hamble, Hampshire
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Hassall
M.W.C. and Tomlin,
R.S.O. 1997. Roman Britain in 1996, Britannia 28, 455-457, no. 1
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Leintwardine, Hereford and
Worcester
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Wright, R.P. 1969. Roman Britain
in 1968, JRS
59, 241, no. 31
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Lydney, Gloucestershire
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RIB 306 (with Adams, J. N. 1998. Two notes on RIB, ZPE 123, 235-236)
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Marlborough, Wiltshire
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O.
1998. Roman Britain in 1997, Britannia 29, 375-386, no. 3
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Pagans Hill, Avon
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O.
1984. Roman Britain in 1983, Britannia 15, 336-341, nos. 7-9
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Southern Britain (No Provenance B)
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O.
1988. Roman Britain in 1987, Britannia 19, 488-490, no. 3
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Wanborough, Wiltshire
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Rea, J.
1972. Roman Britain in 1971. Appendix: a lead tablet from Wanborough,
Wiltshire, Britannia, 3, 363-67
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Notes on the use of these texts
New cross-references: Where
publications refer to other texts also included in the website, the
bibliographic reference has been replaced with a link to that text. The
bibliographic references can be found in the metadata or in the list of
published tablets below. Cross-references to tablets from Bath have been given
the correct Tab. Sulis number.
Modifications to texts etc: Modifications to texts, translations or commentaries have only been
made where they have been proposed or referred to in the addenda and corrigenda
to RIB (Roger Tomlin) or in the round-up of epigraphic discoveries for Roman
Britain published in Britannia. Thus modifications have been made to the
following four texts
Lydney (RIB 306):The notes have been
revised following the comments of J. N. Adams. (J.N. Adams,
‘Two notes on RIB’, ZPE123 (1998):
235-6)
Chesterton (RIB 243):The texts and the notes
incorporates the additional readings offered by Roger Tomlin (M.W.C.Hassall, R.S.O.Tomlin 1989. Roman
Britain in 1988, Britannia 20, 344-345, (RIB, addenda et corrigenda to the second edition (a))
Caerleon (RIB 323):The texts and the notes
incorporates the additional readings reported by Roger Tomlin (RIB addenda and
corrigenda.
Pagan’s Hill
No. 7 (Hassall,
M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1984. Roman Britain in 1983, Britannia 15, 336-341, nos. 7-9): The note to line XX
incorporates the revision proposed by Roger Tomlin(Hassall, M.W.C. and R.S.O. Tomlin, ‘Roman
Britain in 1990’, Britannia 22 (1991): 309, addenda, (d))
Conventions: Differing
conventions used by different editors where possible have been made consistent.
See conventions
Further Reading
Other published curse tablets from Roman Britain:
The list excludes tablets of which texts are so far
unpublished and inscribed pieces of lead which are not certainly curse tablets.
The numbers in brackets indicates the numbers of published texts or
pseudo-texts from an individual location. A list of other published magical
documents from Roman Britain is appended.
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Baldock, Hertfordshire (1)
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RIB 221
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Bath, Somerset (c.120)
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Cunliffe, B. and Tomlin, R.
1988. The temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath.Vol 2. The finds from the sacred
spring Oxford: OUCA
Tomlin, R. S. O. 1994. Vinisius to Nigra. Evidence from
Oxford of Christianity in Roman Britain, ZPE 100, 93-108
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Brandon, Norfolk
(1)
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1994 Roman Britain in
1993? Britannia 25, 293-295, no. 1
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Braughing, Hertfordshire (1)
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Tomlin, R.S.O. 1988. Inscribed lead object, in Potter, T.
and Trow, S. Puckeridge-Braughing, Herts. The Ermine Street Excavation
1971-1972, Hertfordshire
Archaeology, 10, 68-69
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Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk (1)
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1982. Roman Britain in
1981, Britannia 13, 407-409, no.9
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Eccles, Kent (1)
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Tomlin, R.S.O. 1985. A late Roman defixio (curse tablet) from the Eccles villa, Archaeologia
Cantiana, 102, 19-25
Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1986. Roman Britain in
1985, Britannia 17, 428-429, no. 2
Hassall, M.C.W. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1996. Roman Britain in
1995, Britannia 27, 457, (e)
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Harlow, Essex (1)
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Wright, R.P. and Hassall, M.W.C. 1973. Roman Britain in
1972, Britannia 4, 325, no. 3
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Kelvedon, Essex
(1)
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Wright R.P. 1958. Roman Britain in 1957, JRS 48, 150, no. 3
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London (4)
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RIB 6 (Mansion
House)
RIB7 (Telegraph St,
Moorgate)
Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1987. Roman
Britain in 1986, Britannia 18, 360-364, no. 1 (London Bridge, north
foreshore)
Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1992. Roman Britain in
1991, Britannia 23, 309-310, no. 4
(Southwark, Union Street)
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Ratcliffe on Soar, Nottinghamshire (2)
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Turner, E. G. 1963. A curse tablet from Nottinghamshire, JRS, 53, 122-4
Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1993. Roman Britain in
1992, Britannia 24, 310-314, no. 2
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Thetford, Norfolk
(1)
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1982. Roman Britain in
1981? Britannia 13, 410, no. 10
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Weeting with Broomhill, Norfolk (1)
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Hassall, M.W.C. and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1994. Roman Britain in
1993? Britannia 25, 296-297, no. 2
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Other magical documents from Roman Britain
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Caernarvon (1)
(amulet on gold leaf)
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RIB 436
Kotansky, Amulets,
No. 2
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West Deeping, Lincolnshire (1) (amulet on lead sheet)
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Hassall, M.C.W.
and Tomlin, R.S.O. 1996. Roman Britain in 1995, Britannia 27, 443-445, no. 10
Tomlin,
R.S.O. 1997. A Fourth-Century Uterine Phylactery in Latin from Roman Britain,
ZPE
115, 291-4
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Wood Eaton, Oxfordshire (1) (amulet on gold
leaf)
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Wright R.P. 1970. Roman Britain in 1969, Britannia 1, 305, no. 1 (amulet on gold leaf)
Kotansky, Amulets,
No. 3
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Old Railway Station, York (1) (amulet on gold
leaf)
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RIB 706
Kotansky, Amulets,
No. 1
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