Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections: Volume One: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena

James Nathan Ford,Matthew Morgenstern

Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections: Volume One: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
11 December 2019
Pages
312
ISBN
9789004377004

Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections: Volume One: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena

James Nathan Ford,Matthew Morgenstern

The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena houses one of the major European collections of incantation bowls. Forty bowls bear texts written in the Jewish, Manichaean Syriac or Mandaic scripts, and most of the rest (some twenty-five objects) in the Pahlavi script or in various pseudoscripts. The present volume comprises new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) bowl texts based on high-resolution photographs taken by the authors, together with brief descriptions and photographs of the remaining material. New readings are often supported with close-up photographs. The volume is intended to serve as a basis for further study of magic in late Antiquity and of the Late Eastern Aramaic dialects in which the texts were composed.

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