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Jewish and Mandaean Incantation Bowls in the Royal Ontario Museum

Jewish and Mandaean Incantation Bowls in the Royal Ontario Museum

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Art HistoryReligion General Ancient History General

ISBN10: 1487579187
ISBN13: 9781487579180
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Dec 15 1967
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

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.

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