Feeling generous? Buy me a curse

Amazingly, a 1st-2nd century lead curse tablet (from Roman Britain, I assume) is on sale on ebay.  I would LOVE it.  Unfortunately it’s £500… but on the bright side, free postage!

A number of these have been found in Corinth.  A person would write a curse against another individual in the name of a god, often specifying complaints or preferred punishments, and then bury the lead tablet in the ground at a specific site.  At Corinth it was the site of the cult of Demeter and Persephone.  Perhaps this background of cursing-in-the-name-of-a-god helps explain Paul’s comment in 1 Corinthians, “No one speaking by the Spirit of God can say, ‘Jesus, Curse!’” (Bruce Winter’s suggestion)

This one looks like it has quite clear writing – although I assume that when the ebay ad says “demonic script” it actually means “demotic script”!