Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 18A |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-8: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Isoqay (איסוקאי) 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 (28/03/2022) |
| 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/742820001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 16.3 | Width: 5.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (28/3/2022). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Base shard only. |
| 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, 8 lines inscribed in a spiral from the centre outwards. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 47791) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (?) (TM places ID: 47791) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Purchased from Maj Clive Kirkpatrick Daly (coll. website 25/3/2022). |
| 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_1925-1015-7 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Matronym/parental name is missing. The name Isoqay (איסוקאי) may be based on ysog 3rd m. s. imperf. Pe’al SLQ (cf. the form of the personal name YSHQ, Isaac), with hypocoristic ending. (Segal, 2000, p. 60). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 18A. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| 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) |