Curse for Vegetable Sellers in Ancient Tablet
by The practice of magic has existed since ancient times.
Alexander Hollmann, an expert on Greek and Roman magic from the University of Washington, succeeded in analyzing the text in an ancient tablets dating back some 2000 years. The results of the analysis published in the journal “Zeitschrift für und Papyrologie Epigraphik” German publications.
Hollmann said that ancient tablets found in Antioch, one of the major cities during the Roman empire, it contains a curse for a vegetable seller named Babylas. Curse giver asks the gods to bind Babylas, tortured soul, and eliminate it.
The curse is written on two sides of the tablets made from tin was found. Text on one side contains a call to the God of IAI to bind Babylas. The other side asks a lot of gods to remove the tablet and eliminate it, followed by the same process for Babylas.
“The tablet also shows where Babylas life. All are designed so that the gods know exactly where to find it,” Hollmann said. The maker of the curse is not known, but presumably his business rivals.
Hollman assess the curse very seriously and have been common in the past dipratikkan. Tablets containing curse also found in Roman Africa, as well as throughout the Mediterranean region. Allegedly, the curse is based on magic books in circulation at that time and used for a long time.
Tablets containing the curse is found in the 1930’s. After that, along with other tablets from Antioch, these tablets are stored at the Princeton University Art Museum, the United States. Continued analysis performed on the tablets were found and finally one successfully revealed in this study.
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