The Uley Tablets: Roman Curse Tablets from the Temple of Mercury at Uley

by Roger S. O. Tomlin

The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the Cotswolds, the temple of the god Mercury at Uley, Gloucestershire, together with two from the nearby site of Tarlton. Like those found in the hot spring at Bath, they are 'curse tablets', so called because they seek divine intervention against the writer's enemies, who are mostly thieves unknown. They complain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192888625
• ISBN13: 9780192888624
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages