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[It] gives the demon in charge of carrying out the spell precise genealogical and topographical information concerning his target: the three different aliases the shopkeeper’s mother assumed, as well as the city block and even the precise location on a colonnaded street of his vegetable stall.  The demon is repeatedly asked to “bind” Babylas, to “lay him low” to “stink him like lead,” to destroy his animals and his house in general.”","signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2011-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Curse tablet","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Excavated by the Princeton-led team at Antioch-on-the-Orontes, present-day Antakya, Turkey, 1931-1939; with the Museum since 1939","remarks":"Batch edit for Provenance publication project"}],"media":[{"id":207027,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU_E_2017_44048","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"},{"id":207030,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU_E_2017_44058","isprimary":0,"rank":4,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"},{"id":207055,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU_E_2017_44043","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"},{"id":207056,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU_E_2017_44047","isprimary":0,"rank":3,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Donald N.&nbsp;Wilber, <em>Antioch-on-the-Orontes II: the excavations 1933 –1936,</em> ed.,&nbsp;Richard Stillwell,&nbsp;(Princeton, NJ:&nbsp;Princeton University&nbsp;Press; London: Oxford University Press; The Hague: M. 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