Punic Tabella Defixionis
7th or 6th century Punic language curse tablet
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The Punic Tabella Defixionis is a 7th or 6th century Punic language curse tablet, inscribed on a lead scroll, found in Carthage by Paul Gauckler in 1899. It is currently held at the Carthage National Museum. It is known as KAI 89.[1][2]
It is unique as the only fully legible Tabella Defixionis (Latin for curse tablet) known in the Punic-Phoenician language.[3]
R[B?]T
ḤWT
ʾLT
M[LK?]T
Š[Y?]SK
H[ʾ]
Gr[ea]t(?) Ḥawwat, goddess, q[ue]en(?), ne[cc]esary(?) is thi[s],
ʾTK
ʾNKY
MṢLḤ
ʾYT
ʾMʿ[Š]TRT
that ּwith you are I, Matzliah, Amoa[sh]tart,
WʾYT
ʿMRT
WʾYT
KL
ʾŠ
Lʾ
Kʾ
and (not with you is) ʿMRT, and everything that belongs to her, for
ʿLŠʾ
ʿLTY
B[K]SP
ʾŠ
ʾBRḤT
[ʾ?]/[Š?]L[M]
she rejoiced against me in the [m]oney I'd lost [fo]re[ver](?)/[wh]ol[ly](?),
ʾM
ʾYT
KL
ʾDM
ʾŠ
[Š?]L[K?]/[ʾ?]L[Ṣ?]
ʿLTY
that any and every man who is [t]o y[ou](?)/[com]pe[lled](?) to me
[B]BRḤT
HKSP
Z
KM
TYSK
ʾʿPRT
[in] stealing the money, will consume lead!