Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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CAMIB 47A |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Inside ll. 1-8: Incantation bowl probably for protecting a woman named Mama (מאמא) 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 (31/07/2022) |
| 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/419310001 |
| Form: | Bowl |
| Material: | Pottery |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: | Width: 16.51 | Depth: 6.99 |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (31/07/2022) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete; text in poor condition. |
| 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, 8 lines inscribed in spiral from the centre outwards with remains of ten concentric circles of Aramaic characters inside bowl. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Arban (Tell Ajaja), Syria (TM places ID: 4800) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Arban, Syria (TM places ID: 4800) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Excavated by Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894) (coll. website 31/07/2022). |
| 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_N-1847 |
| Notes/Discussion: | The name Mama (מאמא) is a Semitic word meaning “mummy” (Segal, p. 65). The text contains a list of planetary deities that also appears in BM. 91771 (KYP M3905). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Segal, Judah B. Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum (CAMIB). BMP, London, 2000, no. 47A. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Müller-Kessler C. “Die Zauberschalensammlung des British Museum”, Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001/2002): p. 129, 047A. |
| 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 (15/9/2022); KD (27/9/2022) |