The Language of Latin Curse Tablets from Pannonia: A New Curse Tablet from Aquincum.

Summary: A lead tablet recently discovered in the eastern cemetery of the Aquincum civil town is of much interest. The tablet which can be dated on archaeological grounds to the late 2nd–early 3rd centuries AD seems to be a binding curse of a group of men against another group, written in Latin. This curse tablet is especially significant because only five more Latin curses had previously been found in the territory of Roman Pannonia and it supports the inferences that can be deducted from this small collection

A Letter to the Underworld: A Research Report on the Curse Tablet Aq-2

This paper presents the second one of the two newly discovered curse tablets from Aquincum, Pannonia. It gives a reading for both of its sides after considering the letter-types, onomastical features, invoked deities, magical formulas, technical mistakes and vulgar Latin characteristics of the text. These traits show the tablet was worded in close connection with the other one, but they were not written by the same hand

Ito Pater, Eracura and the Messenger: A Preliminary Report on a New Curse Tablet from Aquincum

This paper publishes a new curse tablet from Aquincum. While the letter-forms are well-preserved, the text requires interpretion through linguistic analysis aided by analogies with other curse tablets and literary sources

Parallel phrases and interaction in Greek and Latin magical texts. The Pannonian set of curse tablets

Magical texts represent an inexhaustible source for the phenomena of an ancient language for special purposes. The scope of this paper is limited to the different kinds of word-borrowings in the Pannonian set of curse tablets. One-language, well written and easily readable magical texts can be difficult to understand while explicit and unambiguous wording is expected in such practical genre like curses which level at definite persons. Harmful curse tablets and protective amulets, however, can be obscure. This study aims to give a comprehensive account of the possible reasons why these texts have a cloudy style, with special outlook of parallel phrases in Greek pieces of evidence

Some Remarks on the Latin Curse Tablets from Pannonia

This paper gives a short review of the research from recent years on texts of Latin curse tablets from Pannonia. In the last decade, four new lead tablets of quite long and well-readable texts came to light in well documented archeaological context in Pannonia. On one hand, these findings have not only doubled the small corpus, but they presented new data from both the field of magic and linguistics. On the other, in connection with the examination of the new pieces, the reconsideration of earlier ones could not be delayed any longer