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7 like the three angels which are sent in ‫איך תלתא מלאכין‬
the clouds ‫דמשתד]ר[יֿן בענני‬
‫ברדא וכין קרן להון אגל ֿיט‬
8 of hail, 54 and thus they are calle d:55
5F3 45F ‫ומגליט‬
‫והדר גלת סקו לשמי‬
Aglit and Maglit
‫מר]ו[מא ותברו‬
9 and Hadar Galat; ascend to the high 56‫נרגא מן ביל וחצינא ומן‬
heavens and break
F5
10 the axe from Bel and the hatchet from
Barbel(?), and they will turn back ‫ ומיתפכין‬57‫בֿרביל‬
F 65
11 like an eagle and turn back against NN.
In your name ‫כי נישרא ומיתפכין על פ ב‬
‫פ' בשמך‬
12 ʾYWʾY PY DWN ʾYWʾY ʾWRP ʾWRP
‫איואי פי דון איואי אוֿ ֿרף‬
‫אורף‬

54 ‫ ענני ברדא‬is paralleled in two of the bowls from the British Museum, 001A:10 and
002A:12 (J. B. Segal, Catalogue of the Aramaic and Mandaic Incantation Bowls in
the British Museum [London: British Museum Press, 2000], 43–44): ‫ושדרו וחבילו‬
‫יתה מין עננין דברדא‬, “and they sent and injured her from clouds of hail.”

55 Lit: they call them; ‫ קרן‬is an impersonal 3 pl. participle of the “Onkelos” type. For the
“naming” of demons, compare ‫מסמיתא מטריתא עוירתא קרן לכי מחגרתא קרן לכי‬
‫גרבניתא קרן לכי שפופתי קרן לכי‬, “They call you the blinder, the smiter, the sightless;
they call you the lame one, the scabeous, the crawler” (MS 1927/8:7, in S. Shaked, J.
N. Ford, and S. Bhayro, Aramaic Bowl Spells, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Volume 1
[Leiden: Brill, 2013], 56, with some alterations to the translation).

56 Lege: ‫מן‬.

57 For this formula, cf. the bowl (IM 9736) republished by Ortal-Paz Saar, “An
Incantation Bowl for Sowing Discord,” Journal of Semitic Studies 58 (2013): 241–56,
at 242, l. 7: ‫איתהפיך ביל ואביל ונבו ובורסיף‬, “overturned are Bel and Abel and Nabu
and Borsip.” For the reemergence of the old Mesopotamian gods in Aramaic and
Mandaic texts, see C. Müller-Kessler and K. Kessler, “Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in
spätantiken mandäischen Texten,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 89 (1999): 65–87; D.
Levene and G. Bohak, “A Babylonian Jewish Aramaic Incantation Bowl with a List of
Deities and Toponyms,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 19 (2012): 56–72.