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Nippur (Aramaic incantation bowls)
Nuffar, Iraq · Wider Abrahamic world
32.129, 45.233
Attested. Attested finds. Dating and the religious identity of individual clients are often uncertain.
This photograph shows the modern city, or the Wikipedia lead subject, rather than the ancient site itself.
Excavations at Nippur (1888–1900) found Jewish Aramaic, Syriac and Mandaic incantation bowls buried under houses. They invoke angels and biblical names against demons such as Lilith, so ordinary Jews, Christians and Mandaeans used shared magic. Many bowls are now in the Penn Museum.
Source stance: insider.
People and groups named here
- J. A. Montgomery (editor, 1913)
Sources
- Incantation bowl (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Ziggurat at Nippur (Pleiades place 745146970)
Pleiades Gazetteer (CC BY 3.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
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