The words sometimes occur in significantly different variants, for example on the lead tablet of Phalasarna, Crete:

In 1915 eleven-year-old Ruth Peterson discovered a lead tablet at the mouth of the creek outside Boneyard Hollow.

Near the fire poised the strange, cubical shape of the Brain, intently studying by the firelight the inscribed lead tablet of mystery.

The lead tablet may prove the key to the riddle.

These unset bones, the researchers concluded, could explain the curses inscribed on lead tablets in one tomb.

With each of these dreadful relics was a lead tablet on which was Germanicus's name.

Abivard bowed to Tanshar, then took the broken pieces of the lead tablet and headed up the dusty road to the stronghold.

Muttering under her breath, Ardini walked up the hall toward the bedchamber where she had left the lead tablet.

The Vyne holds an inscribed Roman ring as well as a lead tablet that speaks of a curse on the one who stole it.

An inscribed lead tablet found at the spring is a major source of information on the Gaulish language.