Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 23A |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-13: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Baboi (באבוי) and three other people. |
| 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. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/704271001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: 16.3 | Depth: 6.8 |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (7/4/2022). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete |
| 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, 13 lines inscribed in a spiral from the centre outwards with twelve lines of Aramaic text. Drawing of a demon figure in the centre. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 47791) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Iraq (Mesopotamia) (?) (TM places ID: 47791) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Purchased from Rainer Zietz Ltd in 1983 (collection website 23/6/2022). |
| 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_1983-1002-2 |
| Notes/Discussion: | The name Abda is Semitic, meaning “servant” (Segal, 2000, p. 64) (OPS: but here it is spelled with a א, not a ע). For the name Baboy, see: Justi, 1895, p. 55. Attested in CAMIB 103M (Segal, 2000, p. 64). The name Hormiz is Iranian, referring to the deity Ahuramazda (Segal, 2000, p. 64). Three other people are mentioned in the bowl; it is not clear whether they are all males. They may be sons of a woman named Gušnazduk (גושנזדוך), named Abda (אבדא), Zabina (זבינא) and Hormiz (חורמיז). It is not clear whether the three were also the sons of Baboi (perhaps their mother was dead and hence not included in the incantation) or perhaps had a different relationship to him. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 23A. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Geller, Markham, J. “Four Aramaic Incantation Bowls,” in The Bible World: Essays in Honor of Cyrus H. Gordon, ed. Rendsburg, G. et al. NY: Ktav Publishing House and the Institute of Hebrew Culture and Education of New York University, 1980, Bowl C. |
| 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) |