Incantation bowls, Babylonian

One of the striking features of ancient Jewish magic is the disappearance of numerous magical spells and formulae that are known to us from the Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls...

Abstract This article presents a transcription, translation, and analysis of an unpublished Syriac incantation bowl (B9002) housed in the Penn Museum. Although th...

Mantera, yang pada masyarakat Melayu Deli disebut Jampi, memiliki bahasa yang khas. Tradisi membaca jampi biasanya bertujuan untuk mempermudah pekerjaan dan dibaca ketika akan memu...

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...

This paper discusses the connection between tea bowls and political authority under the influence of the two most significant rulers during the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1568-1603), ...

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...

Indonesian is known to be very religious society. It can be seen through the good growth of literature works both oral and written, such as "poem" and "incantation". Incantation ex...

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...