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KYPRIANOS M3811

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

CAMIB 22A
BM 127395
BM Registration number: 1880,1112.1963

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied)
Incantation Bowl

Contents:

1. Inside ll. 1-7: 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.

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Language(s):

Aramaic (Jewish)

Script(s):

Aramaic

Dialect:

Jewish Aramaic

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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/710864001

Form:

Bowl

Material:

Pottery

Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: 15.6 Depth: 6
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (7/4/2022)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage to rim.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon 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, 7 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: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-1112-1963

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 21A (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. 22A.


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: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon 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)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3811," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3811. Accessed on 19/04/2024

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