{"type":"artobject","objectid":62916,"objectnumber":"2011-146","sortnumber":"2011 146","displaytitle":"Curse tablet","department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","classification":"Ceremonial Objects","datebegin":200,"dateend":599,"datecomputed":400,"daterange":"A.D. 1-500","displaydate":"3rd–6th century CE","medium":"Lead","dimensions":"approx. 10.7 x 8.2 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/4 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University","markings":null,"inscribed":"According to Sigel and Hollmann's report of 7 Sept, 2004: the tablet inscribed with 26 lines of text in Greek, magical characters, and two drawings. The inscription begins with the borphor logos (cf. tablets 3603-I56 and 4740-I 130c). It calls for the victim to undergo an alternately chilling and burning fever (cf. tablet 3421-I45) and be confined to bed. Lines 15-21 contain magical characters. Lines 20-22 contain two remarkable drawings of birds, which appear to be doves. Inside the body of the smaller of the two birds the letter IAÔ appear, which represent the name of the Jewish god and which occur frequently on curse tablets. Research is underway to determine a possible symbolic connection between the bird and the name IAÔ.","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":207029,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU_E_2017_44052","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Donald N. Wilber, Antioch-on-the-Orontes II: the excavations 1933 –1936, ed., Richard Stillwell, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press; The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1938).","citation":"Donald N. Wilber, Antioch-on-the-Orontes II: the excavations 1933 –1936, ed., Richard Stillwell, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press; The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1938)., p. 148","date":1938,"id":2142,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/25612033"},{"boilertext":"

D.R. Jordan, \"A survey of Greek defixiones not included in the special corpora\", Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies 26, no. 2 (Summer, 1985): p. 151-197.

","citation":"

D.R. Jordan, \"A survey of Greek defixiones not included in the special corpora\", Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies 26, no. 2 (Summer, 1985): p. 151-197.

, p. 193","date":1985,"id":7055,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/6930921264"},{"boilertext":"John H. Humphrey, \"Prolegomena to the study of the Hippodrome at Caesarea Maritima\", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
No. 213 (Feb., 1974): p. 2-45.","citation":"John H. Humphrey, \"Prolegomena to the study of the Hippodrome at Caesarea Maritima\", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
No. 213 (Feb., 1974): p. 2-45., p. 40","date":1974,"id":7056,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/1356081"},{"boilertext":"

Alexander Hollmann, \"A curse tablet from the circus at Antioch\", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003): p. 67-82.

","citation":"

Alexander Hollmann, \"A curse tablet from the circus at Antioch\", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 145 (2003): p. 67-82.

, p. 69-71","date":2003,"id":7057,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/20191705"},{"boilertext":"Florent Heintz, \"Magic tablets and the games at Antioch\", in ed. Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: the lost ancient city, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2000).","citation":"Florent Heintz, \"Magic tablets and the games at Antioch\", in ed. Christine Kondoleon, Antioch: the lost ancient city, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2000)., p. 163-167","date":2000,"id":7058,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/43977990"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2011,\" Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 75-132.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2011,\" Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 71/72 (2012-13): p. 75-132., p. 80","date":2012,"id":2987,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/24416387"},{"boilertext":"William Alexander Campbell, \"The third season of excavation at Antioch-on-the-Orontes\", American journal of archaeology 40, no. 1 (Jan.–Mar., 1936): p. 1-10.","citation":"William Alexander Campbell, \"The third season of excavation at Antioch-on-the-Orontes\", American journal of archaeology 40, no. 1 (Jan.–Mar., 1936): p. 1-10., p. 2","date":1936,"id":1942,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/498295"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place excavated: Turkey, Antioch on the Orontes","code":"Place excavated","continent":null,"subcontinent":null,"country":"Turkey","region":null,"state":null,"city":null,"county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":"Antioch on the Orontes","locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_36.207_36.157.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2048754,"term":"ceremonial objects","aatid":300234117,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2036755,"term":"Late Antique","aatid":300020666,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2031691,"term":"Byzantine","aatid":300020669,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2126562,"term":"tablets","aatid":300028879,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2108112,"term":"capitals","aatid":300001662,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2162235,"term":"lead","aatid":300011022,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2108112,"classification":"capitals"},{"id":2126562,"classification":"tablets"},{"id":2048754,"classification":"ceremonial objects"}],"cultures":[{"id":13630,"culture":"Byzantine","alphasort":"Byzantine","begindate":641,"enddate":1453,"displayculture":"Byzantine","displaydate":null}],"cultureterms":[],"periods":[{"id":17030,"period":"Late Antiquity","alphasort":"Late Antiquity","begindate":476,"enddate":700,"displayperiod":"Late Antiquity, ca. 476–700 CE","displaydate":"ca. 476–700 CE"}],"periodterms":[{"id":2036755,"period":"Late Antique"},{"id":2031691,"period":"Byzantine"}],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199320,"term":"Byzantine Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199342,"term":"Antioch Collection","termtype":"Archive | Collection"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Length","units":"centimeters","dimension":"10.70"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"8.20"}],"packages":[{"packageid":278709,"name":"Web_Archive|Collection_Antioch_Objs"},{"packageid":281905,"name":"Web_Archive|Collection_Antioch_ObjNumber"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU_E_2017_44052"],"displaymaker":null,"displayculture":"Byzantine","displayperiod":"Late Antiquity, ca. 476–700 CE","caption":"Byzantine, Late Antiquity (ca. 476–700 CE), Turkey, 3rd–6th century CE, Curse tablet. Lead; 10.7 x 8.2 cm. Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University (2011-146)","captionhtml":"Byzantine, Late Antiquity (ca. 476–700 CE), Turkey, 3rd–6th century CE, Curse tablet. Lead; 10.7 x 8.2 cm. Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch to Princeton University (2011-146)","published_date":"2026-02-11 12:41:28.567483","campusart":[{"campuscollections":"false","campusart":0,"neighborhood":null,"lat":null,"lon":null}],"extended_content":false}