Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 2A |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. ll. 1-13: Incantation bowl to protect a man named Busi son of Gurdušta (בוסי בר גרדושתא) from demons (applied amulet). |
| Language(s): | Aramaic (Jewish) |
| Script(s): | Aramaic |
| Dialect: | Jewish Aramaic |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 800 |
| Date notes: | Coll. website (1/10/2021). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1886-0109-7 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: 16.7 | Depth: 6.1 |
| Dimensions (notes): | From coll. website (1/10/2021) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, repaired. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 text block, 13 lines, written in a spiral on the inside of the bowl. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 47791) |
| Place of purchase: | Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 47791) |
| Writingspot: | Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 47791) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Acquired 1886 (coll. website 1/10/2021). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
193 |
| Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1886-0109-7 |
| Notes/Discussion: | The name Busi is probably Iranian. Pus, meaning “son”, is a not uncommon personal name, for which see Gignoux 1986, no. 782. Gurdušta is probably an Iranian compound name, meaning “Friend of the hero” (Gurd-dost, došt being a dialectal variant of dost) (Segal 2000: p.44) |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 2A. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Gignoux, Philippe. Noms propres sassinides en moyen perse épigraphique (Iranisches Personennamenbuch, II/2). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1986, no. 782. |
| Trismegistos ID: | PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | Information from the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar entered by KD (1/10/2021); KD (12/10/2021); KD (18/10/2021) |