The Museum under and around the Roman Bath is excellent and well worth a visit. We will consider some artifacts in this and the next post. In fact the Bath was connected to a Temple of Minerva, so there was a religious connection to this bath. Here is a drawing of what the bath would have looked like.
The religious connection explains why so many curse formulae written on soft metal were found here. Romans would write out a curse, roll it up, and then place it somewhere in the temple urging the deity to take action. Here are some of the curses, and their translations.
Most of these complaints have to do with theft of something, or even someone.
Here is the altar itself which was found.
But that was by no means the only thing they found, for example…
This is the head of the god Sulis himself, who along with Minerva is honored at this site.
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