Bath curse tablets
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The Bath curse tablets are a collection of about 130 Roman era curse tablets discovered in 1979/1980 in the English city of Bath. The tablets were requests for intervention of the goddess Sulis Minerv
One of the Bath curse tablets on display at the Roman Baths Museum, Bath
The Roman baths at Bath — the entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is post-Roman.
Gilt bronze head of Sulis Minerva, to whom the curse tablets were addressed, found at her temple in Bath.
Curse tablet with complaint about theft of a cloak and bathing tunic
Common Brittonic
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Common Brittonic, also known as Common Brythonic, British, or Proto-Brittonic, is the reconstructed Celtic language thought to be historically spoken by the Celtic Britons in Britain and Brittany. It
Bath curse tablets
…population, known as "British Latin". Two of the inscriptions are in a language which is not Latin, although they use Roman lettering, and may be in a British Celtic language. If this should be the case, they would be the only examples of a written ancient British Celtic language; however, there is not yet scholarly consensus…
Bath curse tablet featuring possible Common Brittonic