Incantation Bowl, inscribed in Syriac
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Gabriel Oussani
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Inscribed in Syriac." Reference, which includes a transcription and translation of the Syriac inscription on the inside of the bowl: pp. 139-142 (no. 26), & pl. 31 in Naveh, Joseph, and Shaul Shaked. 1993. Magic spells and formulae: Aramaic incantations of late antiquity. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University. It is identified there as "Protection for Khusro son of Qaqay and Shelta daughter of Qayumta." A copy of these pages in on file in the accession file in the Anthropology Collections Lab records room. Reference, as bowl No. 28 (listed under incorrect Catalogue No. A027064-0), which includes a transcription and translation of the Syriac inscription on the inside of the bowl: pp. 138-143 in Moriggi, Marco. 2014. A corpus of Syriac incantation bowls: Syriac magical texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia. Leiden: Brill. A copy of these pages in on file in the accession file in the Anthropology Collections Lab records room.
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: A207964-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 17.5 cm