#gold tablets

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Tablet excerpts from Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets by Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston

[eurydiceunderground]

and then symbols and [fragment of a word]

Fragment of rectangular gold foil said to come from Entella [Sicily].  Found in a field inside a terracotta lamp, perhaps 3rd century BCE.

From Ritual Texts for the Afterlife, Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets

[eurydiceunderground]

when you are about to die remembering hero darkness enwrapping

Fragment of rectangular gold foil said to come from Entella [Sicily].  Found in a field inside a terracotta lamp, perhaps 3rd century BCE.

From Ritual Texts for the Afterlife, Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets

[eurydiceunderground]

thirst [untranslatable]

Writing on gold foil tablet found in a grave.  1st-2nd century BCE.

from Ritual Texts for the Afterlife, Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets