Curses in Context, 2: Curses in the Eastern and North African Provinces of the Roman Empire

Edited by Christopher A. Faraone & Richard L. Gordon. Eleven papers (all of them in english), devoted to the practice of depositing written curses at charged or subjectively significant locations: Richard L. Gordon: Curse-Practices in the Late-Antique Roman Levant and North Africa. - Roger S. O. Tomlin: The Latin Curses from Uley and Other Sanctuaries in Britain. - Riccardo Vecchiato: Crucified and Beheaded: The Archaeological Context of the Amathous Curses (DTAud 22-37). - Andrew T. Wilburn: The Selenite and Lead Curse Tablets from Amathous, Cyprus and the Transmission of Magical Technology. - Robert Daniel: A Vestige of the Ptolemaic Crocodile Cult in a Curse from Caesarea Maritima against a Pantomime Dancer. - Attilio Mastrocinque: Cursing Dancers in the Roman Levant: A Forgotten Text in Milan. - Raquel Martín Hernández: The Figural Representation of Victims on Agonistic Late-Antique Curse Tablets. - Christopher A. Faraone: The Curse Tablets of PGM VII: A North African Tradition? - Ortal-Paz Saar: Jewish Curse Tablets? - Korshi Dosoo: The Powers of Death: Memory, Place and Eschatology in a Coptic Curse. - Nicole Belayche: Curse Tablets in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire. An Afterword: Local Specificities of a Mediterranean Practice? - 213 Seiten mit 33 Abb., broschiert (RRE - Religion in the Roman Empire; Vol. 7 (2021), No. 1/Mohr Siebeck 2021) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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