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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. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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