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Introduction
The forum
Houses, workshops, baths
The temple complex The curse tablets
The mithraeum
Burial places

In the temple complex so-called curse tablets of lead were found. The text could still be read on three of these. The first was found in the cella of the northern temple. It was perforated with a nail in order to enhance the magical effect. Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods, was invoked to assist in the returning of a stolen cloak.

MATRI DEVM DOLE[at]
QVIS SAGVM MEVM IDIB(us)
IVLII(s) INVOLAVIT VT SIT ANNOR[um ---]

[ca?]ECVS E[ge]NS CLODVS [---]
[---]SVS DEBILIS DONEC EVM
[---]S IN TEMPLO TVO PONAT To the Mother of the Gods. May be in pain
the person who stole my cloak on the Ides
of July, so that for [---] years that person is

[blind?], poor, lame,
crippled, until that person
[---] places that cloak in your temple.

The text on the front and the back. W. 0.14, h. 0.043.
Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 414; EDCS-7370032. Geisseler-Koch 2018, Abb. 4.

The second tablet was found to the east of the northern temple. It is a tabula ansata. On this one the thief of a lamp was cursed.

[Ma]gna Mater
[---]na rocat s[-]quaca
[---]am ex tuis ancillis
quisquis horreum
Catullinae effrecit
Lindomaci sive f[en]es
tram sive culcitr[a]m
Asiatici et qui lucer[n]am
eius sustulit et qui
conscius est et qui
dolum malum

facit sic iace[at]
in x micto que[m]
admodum haec
epistula iacitu
ra est Great mother.
[---] asks [---]
from your servants:
Whoever broke open the warehouse
of Catullina
in Lindomagus, or the window,
or the cushion
of Asiaticus, and whoever stole
his lamp, and whoever
is an accomplice, and whoever
maliciously

deceives, may he lie
in ten times the urine, in the
same way that this
letter will lie
there.

The text on the front and the back. W. 0.10, h. 0.10.
Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 413; EDCS-70900914. Koch - Lieb- Frei-Stolba 2011, Abb. 3.

The text of the third tablet is incomplete. Cybele was invoked again, and perhaps Attis was mentioned as well.

Introduction
The forum
Houses, workshops, baths
The temple complex The curse tablets
The mithraeum
Burial places

[18-Dec-2023]


MATRI DEVM DOLE[at] QVIS SAGVM MEVM IDIB(us) IVLII(s) INVOLAVIT VT SIT ANNOR[um ---] [ca?]ECVS E[ge]NS CLODVS [---] [---]SVS DEBILIS DONEC EVM [---]S IN TEMPLO TVO PONAT	To the Mother of the Gods. May be in pain the person who stole my cloak on the Ides of July, so that for [---] years that person is [blind?], poor, lame, crippled, until that person [---] places that cloak in your temple.
The text on the front and the back. W. 0.14, h. 0.043. Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 414; EDCS-7370032. Geisseler-Koch 2018, Abb. 4.


[Ma]gna Mater [---]na rocat s[-]quaca [---]am ex tuis ancillis quisquis horreum Catullinae effrecit Lindomaci sive f[en]es tram sive culcitr[a]m Asiatici et qui lucer[n]am eius sustulit et qui conscius est et qui dolum malum facit sic iace[at] in x micto que[m] admodum haec epistula iacitu ra est	Great mother. [---] asks [---] from your servants: Whoever broke open the warehouse of Catullina in Lindomagus, or the window, or the cushion of Asiaticus, and whoever stole his lamp, and whoever is an accomplice, and whoever maliciously deceives, may he lie in ten times the urine, in the same way that this letter will lie there.
The text on the front and the back. W. 0.10, h. 0.10. Kolb et al. 2022, nr. 413; EDCS-70900914. Koch - Lieb- Frei-Stolba 2011, Abb. 3.