Archaeologists have found traces of an ancient curse that should have killed 55 people

Scientists have discovered a jug and a coin under the floor of a classic commercial building in the Agora, which

использовалось древними мастерами.Let us recall that the Agora is a market square in the ancient Greek city-states, which was the place of general civil meetings (which were also called agoras by location). The pot reportedly contained the dismembered head and lower limbs of a young chicken. The results of the study were published in the journal Hesperia.

It is noted that around 300 BC. the people who put the curse also pierced the vessel with a large iron nail.

All outer surfaces of the jug were originallycovered with text. Archaeologists have discovered that more than 55 names were once written on it. Parts of the nail and chicken probably played a role in the curse, scientists note. Nails are commonly found in ancient curse rituals and symbolically immobilize or restrict the movement of victims of the curse.

Image credit: Athenian Agora excavations

The authors of the curse may have meant to convey"The chicken's helplessness and inability to protect itself" to the people whose names are written on the bank, scientists say. The presence of the chicken's head and drumsticks in the jar suggests that "by twisting and piercing the chicken's head and drumsticks, the authors of the curse sought to incapacitate the same body parts of their victims."

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