TIL: Romans and Greeks routinely used folded sheets of lead or pewter to inscribe curses

Greeks and Romans would frequently curse anyone they didn't like, writing it as a curse on a lead sheet, roll it up and pierce it with a nail and put in a specific place, depending on the curse.

Given the amount of such tablets found, they probably cursed someone every other week.

For extra photos - https://www.romanbaths.co.uk/roman-curse-tablets