incantation bowl
- Museum number
- 91766
- Description
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Pottery incantation bowl: a wheel-made hemispherical bowl with simple rim. It is inscribed on the interior in a spiral from the centre outwards. The Aramaic text names the clients as Yaqray and Pusiqyah. The rim is damaged.
- Production date
- 6thC-8thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 15.60 centimetres
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Depth: 5.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This text was drawn, transliterated and translated by Ellis, No. 5 in Layard 1853 519f.; see also Chwolson 1882 114, Schwab 1891 D, Montgomery 1913 p. 24, Jeruzalmi 1963 p. 76, Isbell 1975, no. 59. It contains phrases in Heb.
Bibliography:
A. H. Layard, ‘Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon’ (London, 1853);
D. Chwolson, ‘Corpus Inscriptionum Hebraicarum’ (St. Petersburg, 1882);
M. Schwab, Coupes à inscriptions magique, ‘Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology’ 13, pp. 583-595;
J. A. Montgomery, ‘Aramaic incantation texts from Nippur’ (University of Pennsylvania, The Museum, Publications of the Babylonian Section, vol. III), (Philadelphia, 1913);
I. Jeruzalmi, ‘Les coupes magiques araméennes de Mésopotamie’. Thèse pour le doctorat du troisième cycle presentée à la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université de Paris. (Paris, 1963);
C. D. Isbell, ‘Corpus of the Aramaic incantation bowls’ (SBL Dissertation Series, 17). (Missoula, 1975).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; rim damaged.
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 91766
- Registration number
- 1851,0903.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 11 (exhibition number (black))
