ArchaeologicalAntiquité tardive· Ve-VIIe siècle
Aramaic incantation bowl
Enrich the Great Book
Description
Earthenware bowl inscribed in a spiral with Aramaic incantations against demons, buried beneath the thresholds of houses. Many are written in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.
Significance
They illuminate popular magic and the language of the Jewish community of Babylonia in the Talmudic era.
Features
- Provenance
- Babylonie (Irak)