Incantation Bowl In Aramaic Text And Jug Excavated From Israel ~ Antiquities

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There are only about 2,000 known incantation bowls in private collections and museums. The average price in the low scale is $2,300-4000. I'm open to discussions about price.Incantation Bowl In Aramaic Text And Jug Excavated From Israel ~ Antiquities. Jewish Interest.The bowl offered with this listing is an incantation bowl in Aramaic script excavated in Israel as well as a jug excavated in Israel.An incantation bowl, also known as a demon bowl, devil-trap bowl, or magic bowl, is a form of early protective magic found in what is now Iraq and Iran and other parts of the Middle East. Produced in the Middle East during late antiquity from the sixth to eighth centuries, particularly in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria, the bowls were usually inscribed in a spiral, beginning from the rim and moving toward the center. Most are inscribed in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic.There are known to exist at least 2000 bowls in both museums and private collections, of which less than 25% have been published. The great majority is written in Aramaic dialects, a hand-full in Pahlavi, and there are two in Arabic. There are also a significant number of texts that are written in pseudo-scripts. The types of Aramaic represented in order of prevalence are: Aramaic square script (about 60%), Mandaic script (just under 25%), and Syriac scripts (under 15%). The square read more

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