Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 13A |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-9: Incantation bowl for exorcising evil spirits, mainly liliths, who harm Bahranduk, daughter of Newanduk (בהרנדוך בת ניונדוך), and (her husband?) Mahdad, son of Iṣpandramid (מהדד בר איצפנדרמיד) (protection). |
| 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 (8/3/2022) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/709739001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.4 | Width: 6.9 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (8/3/2022) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete |
| 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 in bowl, 9 lines inscribed in the centre of the bowl in a spiral going from inside to outside. Circle with inner cross in centre. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Amran (Babylon), Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 390) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Amran (Babylon), Iraq (Mesopotamia) (?) (TM places ID: 390) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Excavated by Sir Austen Henry Layard (coll. website 8/3/2022). |
| 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_1851-0903-2 |
| Notes/Discussion: | The name Bahranduk is Iranian, meaning ‘daughter of Bahram’, which is attested in CAMIB Bowl 068A. Newanduk is an Iranian name (attested also in AIT Bowl 5, Gordon 1937, Bowl and Geller 1997, Bowl A), Newan-dukt, meaning ‘daughter of the good/strong ones’, cf. Nēvēn in Gignoux 1986, no. 689 (CAMIB, p. 55). The name Mahdad is Iranian, meaning ‘given by the Moon’, referring to a child’s conception, cf. Gignoux 1986, no. 529. The text of the bowl is paralleled in Bowl Montgomery 1913 no. 11a and in Lidzbarski 1902, no. 5. The names of the two individuals have been read differently by different editors as follows: Ellis 1853: בהדנדוך בת ניונדוך and בהרד בר איספנדרמיד. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | “Ellis, T. “”Jewish Relics,”” in Austin H. Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, John Murray, London, 1853, p. 509-514, no. 1 |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Jeruzalmi, I. Les coupes magiques Araméennes de Mésopotamie, PhD Thesis, Université de Paris, 1963, 65-75. |
| 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 digitised by AS entered by KD (29/3/2022) |