Image: Orphic Gold Tablet (Petelia - British Museum, London)
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Description: Gold Orphic Tablet with Case in the British Museum. Gold tablet with an Orphic inscription and the pendant case that contained it. The inscription warns the soul not to drink from a particular spring in Hades, but to seek one by the Lake of Memory, where, after drinking, it shall be equal with other souls. Museum number 1843,0724.3 BM
Title: Orphic Gold Tablet (Petelia - British Museum, London)
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