Jewish and Mandaean Incantation Bowls in the Royal Ontario Museum /
McCullough, W.S.
Jewish and Mandaean Incantation Bowls in the Royal Ontario Museum / W.S. McCullough. - 1 online resource (100 p.) - Heritage .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
THE FIVE TERRACOTI'A BOWLS which are the subject of this study are commonplace in appearance, their only distinction being that each has on its inside surface (and in one case on the outside as well) a spiral inscription in a dialect of Aramaic. The inscriptions are in fact magical texts designed to throw a protective spell over the persons for whom they were written. Bowls of this type have been found in Mesopotamia in considerable numbers during the past century, and have reached the Western world either through dealers or through archaeologists. The five texts before us add in various ways to the lore of the Mesopotamian incantation bowls, and in particular the three Mandaean ones make a modest contribution to the known vocabulary of Mandaic.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487579180 9781487578510
10.3138/9781487578510 doi
Incantation bowls.
Incantations, Aramaic.
Incantations, Mandaean.
RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology.
PJ5208.A5 / M3eb
492.2
Jewish and Mandaean Incantation Bowls in the Royal Ontario Museum / W.S. McCullough. - 1 online resource (100 p.) - Heritage .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
THE FIVE TERRACOTI'A BOWLS which are the subject of this study are commonplace in appearance, their only distinction being that each has on its inside surface (and in one case on the outside as well) a spiral inscription in a dialect of Aramaic. The inscriptions are in fact magical texts designed to throw a protective spell over the persons for whom they were written. Bowls of this type have been found in Mesopotamia in considerable numbers during the past century, and have reached the Western world either through dealers or through archaeologists. The five texts before us add in various ways to the lore of the Mesopotamian incantation bowls, and in particular the three Mandaean ones make a modest contribution to the known vocabulary of Mandaic.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487579180 9781487578510
10.3138/9781487578510 doi
Incantation bowls.
Incantations, Aramaic.
Incantations, Mandaean.
RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology.
PJ5208.A5 / M3eb
492.2