Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections: Volume One: The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena

by James Nathan Ford

The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities at Friedrich-Schiller-Universit?t Jena houses one of the major European collections of incantation bowls. Forty bowls bear texts written in the Jewish, Manichaean Syriac or Mandaic scripts, and most of the rest (some twenty-five objects) in the Pahlavi script or in various pseudoscripts. The present volume comprises new editions of the Aramaic (and Hebrew) bowl texts based on high-resolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900437700X
• ISBN13: 9789004377004
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 336 Pages