Petelia 2 is a curse text written on a leaf-shaped lead tablet, 0.028m high and 0.184m wide.1 It was found on
the surface at loc. Cassana, north of modern Strongoli, by Luigi Mazza. The inscription was fi rst published
by Lazzarini (2004), with a small amount of further discussion in Lazzarini (2009);2 it was subsequently
re-edited by Crawford (2011: 1475–77) without autopsy. Lazzarini dates the tablet to the fourth or early third
century BC (Lazzarini 2004: 674), while Crawford dates it to c.300 BC (Crawford 2011: 1475). The tablet
is now in the deposit of the Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Crotone (inventory no. 4016/M), where the
members of the ‘Greek in Italy’ project examined it on the 16th September 2014.3 As a result of our autopsy
we propose a different reading in column 4 and several possible reinterpretations of this section of the text [...
