Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 21A |
| 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 Aban, son of Daday (אבאן בר דדי), his house and shop from the evil eye, and for securing prosperity for them. |
| 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 (7/4/2022) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A86 |
| Archive name: | Aban, Son of Daday Incantation Bowl Dossier |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/710211001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: 16.2 | Depth: 5.8 |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (7/4/2022) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, repaired. |
| 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 in seven lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Birs-Nimrud (Borsippa), South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 11621) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Birs-Nimrud (Borsippa), South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (?) (TM places ID: 11621) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam (coll. website 7/4/2022). |
| 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_1880-1112-1964 |
| Notes/Discussion: | The name Aban is Iranian, meaning either ‘the Waters’, the principal Iran goddess, or else a compound name: ab (water) + patronymic suffix -an. The name Daday is attested in MSF Bowl 19 and as Doday in AIT Bowl 15. It is a Semitic word meaning ‘friend”’ (Segal, 2000, p. 63). The same client, Aban, appears in the partial duplicate bowl CAMIB 22A (M3811), written by the same scribe.” |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 21A. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Sokoloff, Michael. A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2002, Source Bo 134. |
| 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 (23/6/2022) |