Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | CAMIB 26A |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-6: Incantation bowl for protecting a man named Aštad (אשתד) from demons. |
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 (28/04/2020) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1546620001 |
Form: | Bowl |
Material: | Pottery |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: 16 | Depth: 5.4 |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (28/4/2022) |
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. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 text block in bowl, 6 lines inscribed in a spiral from the centre outwards. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Tell Ibrahim (Kutha), South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 52548) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Tell Ibrahim (Kutha), South Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 52548) |
Present Location: | London, British Museum |
Collection History: | Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in 1881 (coll. website 28/04/2020) |
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_1881-0714-12 |
Notes/Discussion: | Aštad is an Iranian Avestan name, for which cf. Justi 1895, p. 47. Also the Zoroastrian Yazata, the goddess “Rectitude”. Segal rejects the interpretation of the name as Ištar (Segal, 2000, p. 67). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Schwab, Moïse. “Les coupes magiques et l’hydromancie dans l’antiquité orientale”, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 12 (1890), bowl H. |
Translations: | |
General: | Isbell Charles, D. Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls, Missoula: Society of Biblical Literature and Scholars Press, Dissertation Series 17],1975. |
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) |