• [Aramaic incantation bowl].

Extent:
  • 1 bowl
Date:
  • 200
Language:
Abstract:
  • Bowl with written text comprised of incantations in the Mandaic dialect of Aramaic.
Description:
  • Text begins: "In the name of Life. Let there be health unto the house ... of Shabor the son of Mamay."
Provenance:
  • Purchased by Cyrus H. Gordon in Baghdad, 1935.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift; Cyrus H. Gordon.
References:
  • Gordon, C. H. "Aramaic incantation bowls," Orientalia, X (1941), 356-357
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