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Offline Ante A

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Please help me to id this small lead items
« on: January 23, 2019, 01:58:31 pm »
I have this smal two lead item. Together they are 2cm lenght.
Are they some text on it, some inscripton?
Thx

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Re: Please help me to id this small lead items
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2019, 03:29:14 pm »
It seems to be a Roman lead tag with cursive latin script. Many similar items were found eg. in Siscia and Savaria, they could be laundry tickets (like in Savaria) or label on goods, etc.
 You could crop the photo, its too big!

Some papers on the subject:
https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Roman_lead_tags

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    • A Handbook of Late Roman Bronze Coin Types 324-395.
Re: Please help me to id this small lead items
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2019, 07:55:06 am »
Could also be fragments of a curse tablet.  These were common throughout the Roman world.  A curse, or sometimes another type of request, was carved onto a small lead tablet and thrown not a sacred well, offered at temple, etc.

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