page_title: Curse tablet
hierarchical_section_title: Curse tablet
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Tablette de défixion d'Eyguières (Bouches-du-Rhône).
context_page_description: A curse tablet is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. The tablets were used to ask the gods, place spirits, or the deceased to perform an action on a person or object, or otherwise compel the subject of the curse.
context_section_description: A curse tablet (Latin: tabella defixionis, defixio; Greek: κατάδεσμος, romanized: katadesmos) is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. The tablets were used to ask the gods, place spirits, or the deceased to perform an action on a person or object, or otherwise compel the subject of the curse.
caption: Eyguieres curse tablet
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