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000121189 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-8420-3504$$aSánchez Natalías, Celia$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000121189 245__ $$aCurse tablets against thieves in roman britain: the social and legal influences on a magical-religious technology
000121189 260__ $$c2022
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000121189 5203_ $$aThis article deals with curse tablets against thieves, also known as ‘prayers for justice’. In the first part, I offer a short introduction to the topic and the scholarly debate surrounding the definition of this type of inscription, concluding that a more emic approach can help us understand the complex nature of a technology that, far from being monolithic, evolved over time and space. In the second part, I compare the literary and epigraphic evidence (in Greek and Latin), pointing out the similarities and differences between our different sources of information. Finally, I turn to the handful of Latin curse tablets from Roman Britain in which the stolen object's value is divided between the principal and the invoked gods. In my view, this type of transaction should be analysed as a new take on the more traditional votum, in which legal concepts such as obligatio or ownership also play an important role. By establishing an almost contractual agreement with a deity, practitioners obtained not only divine assistance but also tangible evidence of the god's participation.
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000121189 593__ $$aClassics$$c2022$$dQ2
000121189 593__ $$aArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)$$c2022$$dQ3
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000121189 7102_ $$13000$$2445$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed.$$cÁrea Historia Antigua
000121189 773__ $$g69, 1 (2022), 88-103$$tGreece and Rome$$x0017-3835
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