VILBIAM (RIB 154): Kidnap or Robbery?
Paul Russell
ABSTRACT The form vilbiam has been long known from the earliest of Bath curse tablets to have discovered. It usually, but with some reservations, regarded as a female personal name. If so, then, this tablet ( RIB 154) is only one record theft person. suggested here that vilbia , rather than being name, term for sharp-pointed object. further argued it may be Celtic origin and reflex in Middle Welsh gwlf .
Britannia