| Archive name: | Aban, Son of Daday Incantation Bowl Dossier |
Trismegistos Archive ID: 
Page on the database Trismegistos Collections for the archive. |
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| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 800 |
| Provenance: | Birs-Nimrud (Borsippa), South Iraq (Mesopotamia) |
| Trismegistos Place ID:
Page on the database Trismegistos Places for the place of provenance. |
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| Manuscripts: | KYP M3810 3811 |
| Classification: | These incantations bowls may comprise a “dossier”, meaning that they were both created for the same ancient person Aban, son of Daday (אבאן בר דדי). The bowls are also written by the same scribe. |
| Description: | Two incantation bowls for protecting a man named Aban, son of Daday (אבאן בר דדי), his house and shop from the evil eye, and for securing prosperity for them. |
| Acquisition: | The two bowls were excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in Birs-Nimrud (Borsippa), South Iraq (Mesopotamia). The British Museum acquired both bowls in 1880. |
| Dating: | The British Museum collection website lists both of the bowls as having been written between the sixth and eighth century. |
| Language/dialect: | The two bowls are written in Jewish Aramaic. |
| Materiality/composition: | The two partial duplicate bowls were written by the same hand, and are both incomplete. only CAMIB 21A has been repaired. They are around 15.6-16.2 cm in diameter, and 5.8-6 cm high. |
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| Bibliography: |
Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 21A-22A |
| Edit History: | Information created by AS during the digitisation of the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar, entered by KD (23/6/2022) |