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Description: | Part of a rectangular lead plaque with inscription on both faces. 20-21mm wide & at least 39mm long, one end curled over & finishing in a ragged break. The inscription is inscribed in a cursive hand. On one face there are three lines of Latin text, with an initial cross & other crosses between words. The other face carries four lines of less firmly inscribed & smaller letters. The object has been examined by Paul & Elizabeth Rutledge who have kindly provided the following tentative transcription & comments:+ applon + .......appla + applon...+ qam se rit.......+ approb...+..+ 't appria....Se...+ el.....Appria +.....None of this makes much sense but we wondered whether applon might be the Greek name of the king of Hell, in which case it could be a phylactery or amulet. Appollyon's name appears among the names of power in a much later (17th-cent.) spell published in Norfolk Archaeol. 30 (1952), 169-77. Perhaps this is rather fanciful, however. The hand would seem right for the first half of the 14th cent. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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