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CAMIB 28A |
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Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-17: Incantation bowl for protecting and assisting a man named Adurgušlin (אדרגושלין). |
Language(s): | Aramaic (Jewish) |
Script(s): | Aramaic |
Dialect: | Jewish Aramaic |
Language/dialect notes: | |
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501 – 800 |
Date notes: | Coll. website (27/07/2022) |
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KYP A88 |
Archive name: | Adurgušlin, son of Immi Incantation Bowl Dossier |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/152715001 |
Form: | Bowl |
Material: | Pottery |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: 17.2 | Depth: 6.1 |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (27/07/2022) |
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State of preservation: | Damaged, repaired. Fragment missing from rim. |
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1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 text block in bowl, 17 lines inscribed in spiral from the centre outwards. |
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Findspot: | Nimrud (Kalhu), North Iraq (Mesopotamia) (TM places ID: 37189) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Nimrud (Kalhu), North Iraq (Mesopotamia) (?) (TM places ID: 37189) |
Present Location: | London, British Museum |
Collection History: | Excavated by Austen Henry Layard in 1851 (collection website 27/7/2022). |
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Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1851-0903-1 |
Notes/Discussion: | Text not very clear. Adurgušlin (אדרגושלין) is an Iranian name, composed of Adur, “fire” and Gušlin, which may be explained as gušl-, possibly dissimilated from gušn-, +in/en as patronymic suffix. The matronym (אימי) is Semitic, meaning “mother” (Segal, p. 69). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 28A. |
Translations: | |
General: | Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”. Archiv für Orientforschung, 48/49, 2001/2, 123, 028A. |
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Edit History: | Information from the “Prosopography of magic bowls” by Ortal-Paz Saar digitised by AS entered by KD (14/9/2022); MPS (14/9/2022) |