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Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur (Paperback)
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Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
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In 1888 the University of Pennsylvania sponsored the first ever
American archaeological expedition to Mesopotamia, to Nippur, about
160 km south of Baghdad. Among the artefacts discovered were the
remains of over 100 inscribed bowls from the early centuries CE.
Some contain unidentifiable writing, but most carry spiral
inscriptions of exorcism texts in one of three Aramaic dialects and
scripts: that of the Babylonian Talmud, a Syriac dialect, and
Mandaic. This book, first published in 1913, contains
transcriptions and annotated translations of texts from forty of
the bowls, together with an inscription found on a human skull, and
41 illustrations. A substantial introduction sets the material in
the broader context of Hellenistic magic. The author traces the
bowl magic back to ancient Babylonian sorcery, and explores its
relations with cuneiform religious texts and Greek magical papyri,
emphasising its culturally eclectic character and the diversity of
its users.
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