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Incantation Bowl Corpus

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Incantation Bowl Corpus." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/incantation/incantation-bowl-corpus.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Incantation Bowl Corpus. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/incantation/incantation-bowl-corpus

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-incantation-bowl-corpus,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Incantation Bowl Corpus},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/incantation/incantation-bowl-corpus},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

An incantation bowl is a late antique Aramaic ceramic bowl inscribed in a spiral running from the rim to the centre and buried inverted beneath a household threshold or corner as protective magic against demons and the evil eye. The bowls recorded here are catalogued as a corpus, the Babylonian incantation bowls, rather than individually, reflecting how the surviving examples are generally studied and published as a body of related material.

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