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8 from NN. Let him raise his eyes to ‫מן פ' ב פ ניזקוף עיניה‬
heaven and he shall se[e] [‫לשמיא ויח ֿז]י‬

9 the mystery of love from NN, Amen ‫רזא דרחמתא מן פ ב פ אמן‬
Amen Sela. ‫אמן סלה‬

10 ʾGLN QWṬY SWTY ʾKYMY ʾṢṬYS ‫אגלן קוטי סותי אכימי‬
ZWṬY ‫אצטיס זוטי‬

11 QYNRY NDM. Say over bdellium43F35 ‫ אזרק‬34‫קינרי נדם ק' ע מיקל‬
and mustard . . .3653F F3
‫וכרדל‬

Folio 1b

1 . . . over (it?) 7 times. This mystery is ‫] [•• על ז' זמ' מזמן הדין‬
appointed for NN, '‫רזא לפ ב פ‬

2 that he should raise his water pipe37 and ‫ניזקוף זרנוקיה ונידלי דוליה‬
36F ‫ותינטוף‬

draw his bucket and drip

33 The expression ‫ רזי רחמתא‬is found in the erotic bowl published by J. A.
Montgomery, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur (Philadelphia: University
Museum, 1913) 28:3, 4 (p. 213).

34 Lege: ‫מוקל‬.

35 Muql azraq, i.e., bdellium; see E. Lev and Z. Amar, Practical Materia Medica of the
Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah (Leiden: Brill,
2007), 111.

36 ‫ כרדל‬is the Judeo-Arabic spelling for ‫ﺧﺭﺩﻝ‬, “mustard,” cognate with JBA ‫חרדלא‬. For
the use of mustard in aggressive magic in late-antique Babylonia, cf. the Pishra de-
Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa: ‫ואם על חרדלא עבדו ליה ועל בר זרעא עבדו ליה קטריאל‬
‫ישרי ויפשר ליה‬, “And if they did it to him over mustard or if they did it to him over
seed, Qaṭriʾel will release and exorcise for him” (Franco Michelini Tocci, “Note e
documenti di letterature religiosa e parareligiosa giudaica,” Annali dell’Istituto
Universitario Orientale di Napoli 46 [1986], 101–8, at 103).

37 Here used in a figurative manner; the same usage is found in Mandaic: mta huṭrak
unidalia qumtak uniqum zarnuqak ulanitikbiš, “extend your staff that your stature be
raised up and your pipe be erected and not brought down” (DC 12: 59–60). For a
similar use in Palestinian Jewish Aramaic, note the use of the Greek loan word ‫סילונה‬
(tube, pipe) for the male organ, on which see S. Krauss, Griechische und lateinische
Lehnwörter im Talmud, Midrasch und Targum (2 vols.; Berlin, 1898–99; repr.,