Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | CAMIB 22A |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
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. |
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/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: 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: 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: 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 (23/6/2022) |