Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 16A |
| 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 protecting a man named Aban Gušmis, son of Anošafrit (אבאן גושמיס בר אנושפרית), and his household 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 (25/03/2022). |
| 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/743039001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.1 | Width: 3.9 | 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.
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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_1881-0714-9 |
| 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 CAMIB Bowl 79M. The same client, Aban Gušmis (or Gušnas) appears in bowl CAMIB 15A, written by the same scribe. His wife is also mentioned in bowl CAMIB 15A, by name Lalay (לאלי). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 16A. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, 48/49, 121, 016A. |
| 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) |