Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 6A |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. ll. 1-57: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Mahperoz son of Hindu (מהפירוז בר הנדו) from demons and curses. |
| 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 (16/11/2021). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A81 |
| Archive name: | Mahperoz Incantation Bowl Dossier |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/340408001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: 19.5 | Depth: 6 |
| Dimensions (notes): | From coll. website (16/11/2021) |
| 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, 61 lines, written in a spiral inside 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: | Purchased from Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson in 1851 (coll. website 16/11/2021). |
| 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_1851-1009-101 |
| Notes/Discussion: | The name Mahperoz is Iranian, Mah-Peroz, meaning “Victorious Moon” (?) or “Victorious throughout the Moon” or “”Moon of (King) Peroz”. The same client, Mahperoz, appears in another six bowls found in the British Museum. The full archive (KYP A81) consists of CAMIB Bowl 6A (=KYP M3745); Bowl 7A (=Ellis Bowl 2; KYP M3747); Bowl 8A (KYP M3748); Bowl 9A (=Ellis Bowl 3; KYP M3749); Bowl 10A (=Ellis Bowl 4; KYP M3750), Bowl 11A (KYP M3752); Bowl 12A (KYP M3755). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 6A. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 120. |
| 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 (16/11/2021) |