Details

Subject(s)

• Incantations, Aramaic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Aramaic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contained in

• Princeton Collection of Syriac Manuscripts, 1239-1900 (mostly 1600s-1700s)

Restrictions note

Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.

Summary note

Bowl with written text comprised of incantations in the Mandaic dialect of Aramaic.

Notes

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

In

Princeton collection of Syriac manuscripts, 200-1900 (bulk 1600s-1700s).

OCLC

812610666

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