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Ancient ‘Curse Tablets’ Inscribed With Calls To The Roman God Of War Discovered In French NecropolisArchaeologists excavating an 18th-century hospital in Orléans, France, recently came across a 2,000-year-old Roman necropolis ...
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Curse tablet found in Roman-era grave in France targets enemies by invoking Mars, the god of warExcavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.
For example, Mars was seen as the god of war and Fortuna was the goddess of luck and fortune. Many of the Roman gods and goddesses are borrowed and adapted from the gods the ancient Greeks ...
As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks ... Other major gods included Mars (god of war), Mercury (god of trade ...
such as Jupiter and Mars. State worship was much more formal: colleges of priests paid tribute to these gods on behalf of Rome itself. The objective of Roman worship was to gain the blessing of ...
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