Incantation Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Gabriel Oussani
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Inscription in Hebrew characters on bottom. Crude drawings of a reptile and two birds. "On the interior surface, in the center, are two human figures and a serpent (?). The spiral inscription, also on the interior, seems to be an ancient fake sold to an unsuspecting client. The imitation Aramaic characters make no sense" ("Aramaic and Mandaic Magical Bowls" by Cyrus H. Gordon, in Archiv Orientalni, vol. 9, nos. 1-2, p. 85, footnote 4. 1937). Loan: Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 10.21.69, Ret. August 14, 1970. Loaned to the Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica 10-10-74. Returned March 19, 1975."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hillah, Babil Governorate (Babylon Province), Iraq (South Babylonia), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037297
label: USNM Number
content: A207962-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl