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[Aramaic incantation bowl].
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
Published/Created
[Iraq?, 2--?]
Description
1 bowl
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
C0941 (Princeton Syriac MS. 8)
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Incantations, Aramaic
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Aramaic
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New Jersey
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Princeton Collection of Syriac Manuscripts, 1239-1900 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
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Princeton collection of Syriac manuscripts, 200-1900 (bulk 1600s-1700s).
OCLC
812610666
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