The Headless God (1927) - Page 24

texts and images of the "Sethian Curse Tablets" created around 400 AD. And indeed, a glance over the sketches of the images that RICHARD WÜNSCH included in his well-known book¹

[Greek inscriptions within the curse tablet illustration:]
uoachlpchal ... niô bra ôep
elimôn katô ... riouain peri
oueir oue b ... kê upomon
Zafi oueri ... tekon mêtêr
aine ... l th ch ph r ... ge gaun gegun
...
okeiri mpaphri

Fig. 2. Lead curse tablet from the Vigna Marini, Rome. Wünsch 16 A, Aud. 155.

proves the necessity of dealing with this material: at least here, spooky figures appear partly

1 RICHARD WÜNSCH, Sethian Curse Tablets from Rome, Leipzig 1898.

A line drawing of an ancient lead curse tablet (Bleifluchtafel) from Vigna Marini, Rome. It depicts a donkey-headed Seth-Typhon figure holding a disc, surrounded by magical symbols (charaktêres) and extensive Greek magical formulae. Below the main deity, a corpse or mummy lies wrapped in a net or lattice pattern.