incantation bowl
- Museum number
- 91757
- Description
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Pottery incantation bowl: hemispherical bowl with simple rim; wheel-thrown; inscribed in spiral from the centre outwards. Mandaic text; almost entirely illegible; repaired and incomplete.
- Production date
- 6thC-8thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 17.20 centimetres
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Depth: 4.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Not updated in Ford's (2002) review of the Mandaic bowls published by Segal.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair; repaired and incomplete.
- Acquisition notes
- 19th century big number implying this is from a Mesopotamian collection; big number sequence suggests that it is from either Rawlinson or Rassam.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 91757
- Registration number
- 1980,0415.13
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 113M (siglum)
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Miscellaneous number: 53 (exhibition number (black))
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Miscellaneous number: 926 (exhibition number (red))