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‘Atiqot 92 (2018)
ISBN 2948-040X
A Greek Curse Tablet from the Eastern Circus at Caesarea Maritima
(pp. 167–174)
Robert Daniel and Yosef Porath
Keywords: epigraphy, Roman leisure culture, facility, entertainment
Excavations along the
spina
of the Eastern Circus at Caesarea revealed six folded lead tablets: five near the
meta prima
, one near the fallen obelisk and one west of the
meta prima
, nailed down to the
arena
surface by a long iron nail. Tablet No. 3 bears a Greek inscription, comprising a curse directed against unnamed charioteers who would compete against a charioteer named Domninus and his horses. The curse tablet was found close to one of the circus’s turning-posts, where it would have been most efficacious.