Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | CAMIB 15A |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-11: Incantation bowl for the protection of a man named Aban Gušmis (or Gušnas), son of Anošafrit (אבאן גושמיס בר אנושפרית), and his wife Lalay (לאלי) from curses and 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. | KYP A84 |
Archive name: | Aban Gušmis Incantation Bowl Dossier |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/710890001 |
Form: | Bowl |
Material: | Pottery |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 12.4 | Width: 4 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (14/03/2022). |
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. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 text block in bowl, 11 lines inscribed in a spiral from the centre outwards. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Tell Ibrahim (Kutha), South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 52548) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Tell Ibrahim (Kutha), South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (?) (TM places ID: 52548) |
Present Location: | London, British Museum |
Collection History: | Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam (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_1881-0714-11 |
Notes/Discussion: | Aban Gušmis (or Gušnas) is an Iranian name, meaning “Stallion (dedicated to) the Waters, alluding to the legend of the Urmia lake, attested in Segal 2000, Bowl 079M. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 15A. |
Translations: | |
General: | Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, 48/49, 121, 015A |
Trismegistos ID: | PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | ||||
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) |