Incantation bowls, Babylonian

The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigrap...

Known to many from a Babylonian poem that is widely regarded as a classic of world literature, Gilgamesh was a legendary king of Uruk, a city in southern Iraq. He appears in multip...

This chapter argues that incantation was another shorter hexametrical genre and it is framed around the description of the powers of Helen’s pharmakon in Odyssey 4. It shows that t...

This essay discusses the limits of transmission of Babylonian literature to other non-cuneiform literatures. It will ask can a limit be set as to what is Babylonian, specifically B...

Thanks to the cuneiform tablets discovered at Boghaz-Keui, the capital of the Hittite empire, the thick darkness which hung over the geography of eastern Asia Minor in the pre-clas...

This chapter examines the origin of the enamelled hanging-bowls discovered in Sutton Hoo and their implications for understanding Anglo-Saxon, Irish, and British relations. It sugg...

The use of idiofonic ethnical istruments known as "Tibetan Singing Bowls", characterized by a fascinating sound and a deep vibration, have been for millennials part of a culture in...

Abstract This chapter explores the musical work of William Grant Still (1895–1978), with a focus on his composition, Incantation and Dance for oboe and piano (1941)....