131632 20260219141449.0 doi 10.1628/rre-2019-0026 sideral 136995 ART-2019-136995 eng Sánchez Natalías, Celia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8420-3504 Aquatic spaces as contexts for depositing defixiones in the Roman West 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The aim of this paper is to focus on the deposition of curse tablets in aquatic spaces, such as rivers, seas, fountains, or wells. This broad context has been traditionally treated as if it was a straight forward, coherent and confined category that was wholly separate from the other contexts in which defixiones were deposited. Nevertheless, the aquatic contexts are in reality among the most slippery to classify, not only because they intersect with other contexts, but also because the coherence of this category depends on the cultural meaning with which practitioners endowed it. By analysing the archaeological record from the Roman West, I argue that most of these contexts are often much better understood as sacred spaces, which were thought to be especially conducive to communicate with the invoked deities. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/RTI2018-098339-J-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3000 445 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed. Área Historia Antigua 5, 3 (2019), 456-467 Religion in the Roman Empire 2199-4463 731179 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/131632/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1248683 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/131632/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:131632 articulos driver 2026-02-19-14:14:15 ARTICLE