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KYPRIANOS M3815

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

CAMIB 25A
BM 91739
BM Registration number: 1841,0726.90

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 woman named Qlima, daughter of Yewita (קלימא בת יותא), from curses and demons.

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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.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/743019001

Form:

Bowl

Material:

Pottery

Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: 16.3 Depth: 3.9
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (7/4/2022)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete

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.

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 Claude Scott Steuart in 1841.

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_1841-0726-90

Notes/Discussion:

No explanation of the name Qlima in Segal, 2000. The matronym Yewita may be related to the male name יויתאי, attested in AM bowl 13 and Geller 1986, Aaron Bowl C (Segal, 2000, p. 66). The bowl is written in the first person, leading Segal to suggest Qlima was also the scribe-practitioner (Segal, 2000, p. 66).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 25A.


Translations:
General:

Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, 48/49, 2001/2, 122, 025A.


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 M3815," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3815. Accessed on 16/04/2024

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