Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 14A |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-6: Incantation bowl for protecting the household of two persons, Yaqray (יקרי) and Pusiqyah(פוסיקיה), from demons. |
| 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 (14/3/2022) |
| 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/709713001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15.6 | Width: 5.9 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (14/3/2022). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, rim damaged. |
| 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, 6 lines inscribed in a spiral from the centre outwards. |
| 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 14/3/2022). |
| 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_1851-0903-3 |
| Notes/Discussion: | It is not clear whether these are actually proper names. Rodwell did not read any proper names in the bowl. Concerning יקרי, Jeruzalmi 1963, pp. 85-87 prefers to read it as a verb from the root קרא, since it is unattested as a name. Müller-Kessler 2001/2, p. 121 follows him. Isbell 1975 reads it as a proper name, as does does Segal 2000. About פוסיקיה, Jeruzalmi 1963, pp. 85-87 prefers to read it as a verb from the root פסק, since it is unattested as a name. So does Müller-Kessler 2001/2, p. 121. Isbell 1975 reads it as a proper name, and so does Segal 2000. Pusiqyah (or Yepusiqyah) would seem Semitic, meaning “Yah decrees” (Segal, 2000, p. 56). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Chwolson, D. Corpus Inscriptionum Hebraicarum, St. Petersburg and Leipzig,1882, 114. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Jeruzalmi, I. Les coupes magiques Araméennes de Mésopotamie, PhD Thesis, Université de Paris, 1963, 65-75; Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, 48/49, 76-90. |
| 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) |