The American University of Beirut (AUB) Archaeological Museum Excavations in Tyre Sector 7A. Report on a Late Roman Context Containing Defixio Tablets

Eric Gubel; Vanessa Boschloos; Nada Kallas; Wilfried van Rengen; Abdallah Ala'eddine; Hendrik Hameeuw; Becki Scott; Louis-Pierre Baert

The American University of Beirut (AUB) Archaeological Museum Excavations in Tyre Sector 7A. Report on a Late Roman Context Containing Defixio Tablets

Eric Gubel, Vanessa Boschloos, Nada Kallas, Wilfried van Rengen, Abdallah Ala'eddine, Hendrik Hameeuw, Becki Scott, Louis-Pierre Baert

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This paper reports on the contents of a storage shaft, excavated in 2013 by an archaeological mission of the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut, in a habitation quarter located within the perimeter of the insular town of ancient Tyre. The assemblage includes late Roman pottery, glassware, and an exceptional hoard of inscribed lead sheets (defixiones). This is one of the largest groups of such curse tablets from a single closed context found in the Eastern Mediterranean coastal strip to date.
The excavated ceramic and glass finds are presented here, together with the translation and analysis of one of the inscribed tablets and the results of pXRF analysis and 2D+ multi-light reflectance imaging sessions undertaken on the now unfolded lead sheets.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	319-375
Number of pages	58
Journal	Baal : bulletin d'archéologie et d'architecture libanaises
Volume	21
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2021

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The American University of Beirut (AUB) Archaeological Museum Excavations in Tyre Sector 7A. Report on a Late Roman Context Containing Defixio Tablets. / Gubel, Eric; Boschloos, Vanessa; Kallas, Nada et al.
In: Baal : bulletin d'archéologie et d'architecture libanaises, Vol. 21, 01.01.2021, p. 319-375.

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