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KYPRIANOS M3752

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

CAMIB 11A
BM 91719
BM Registration Number 1851,1009.99

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied)
Incantation Bowl

Contents:

1. Inside ll. 1-13, outside l. 1: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Mahperoz son of Hindu (מהפירוז בר הנדו) from curses and demons. The text is unclear, mentions judges and judgements..

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Language(s):

Aramaic (Jewish)

Script(s):

Aramaic

Dialect:

Jewish Aramaic

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 800
Date notes:

Coll. website (26/11/2021).

Archive/collection: question mark icon 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/709199001

Form:

Bowl

Material:

Pottery

Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: 19 Depth: 5.2
Dimensions (notes):

From collection website (26/11/2021)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, repaired.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 text block in bowl, 13 lines inscribed in the centre of the bowl in a spiral going from inside to outside.

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 (collection website 26/11/2021).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-1009-99

Notes/Discussion:

The name Mahperoz is Iranian, Mah-Peroz, meaning “Victorious Moon” (?) or “Victorious throughout the Moon” or “”Moon of (King) Peroz”.
The matronym Hindu is Semitic, cf. the Arab female name Hind, but possibly cf. Hindu, “Indian”, an epithet for dusky beauty, found in New Persian erotic poetry (Segal 2000: p. 48).

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), a partial duplicate of the present bowl.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 11A.


Translations:
General:

Müller-Kessler, Christa. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 120.


Trismegistos ID: PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

Information from the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar entered by KD (25/11/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3752," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3752. Accessed on 28/03/2024

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