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| Mandaean Bibliography Books ---Articles ---Papers ---- Lectures --- Media |
| Price: List:? Format: Hardcover Size: 10.86 x 8.61 (in inches) Pages 400 pages 159 black & white plates Publisher: British Museum Press Pub. Date: December 4, 2000 ISBN: 0714111457 |
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| Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum by J.B. Segal, Erica C.D. Hunter |
| The British Museum's collection of incantation bowls found in Mesopotamia is probably second only to that of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The function of the bowls, which have magical texts mainly in Jewish Aramaic and Mandaic scripts, is to ward off evil spirits. They were normally buried under the floors of houses. This catalogue provides a transliteration, translation and commentary on the text of each of 142 bowls or fragments of bowls. It also includes a typological study of the physical and decorative features of the bowls, some of which have anthropomorphic or zoomorphic drawings, and a glossary and table of scripts. |
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