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26* Gideon Bohak and Matthew Morgenstern

9 under the cauldron(?) of fire of the ‫תחות דוֿ ֿדא דנורא דהיכלא‬
(heavenly) Temple, to bind ‫למיסר‬

10 and to loosen, that (fem.) NN shall ‫ולמשרא דתיתי פ ב' פ עילויה‬
come after NN ‫דפב'פ‬

11 with her mouth open and her saliva ‫כד פומה פתיח ודייב רירה‬
dripping16F62 and her eyes ֿ‫פתיחן‬

12 open but not seeing, in the Name of •• ‫עינה ולא חזין בשם‬
(??)

Folio 3a

1 and stick and bind [ ] of flax, ‫ֿו ֿדוץ וכֿרו ֿך] [דכיתנא וקבר‬
and bury
‫באיסקופתא ]ד[בֿיתא או על‬
2 at the threshold of the house or on the ‫גידא‬
bank
‫ לשלוח אש ארה‬0–0 ‫דנהרא‬
3 of the river. For sending a fire / fever ..‫דיג‬
ʾRH DYG??
‫נרוגרוי דא ֿנה ב ֿצרו ֿן ס ֿטנריה‬
4 NRWGRWY DʾNH BṢ?RWN .. ‫ֿדינגים‬

SṬ?NRYH D?YNGYM ??63 ‫דקרתא כתוב על אפותיה‬
2F6 [‫שמיה ]ושמא‬

5 of the town? Write on its64 forehead ‫ והיי ראזא על צלמא‬65‫דאימיה‬
36F F 64
...‫וא‬
his name [and the name]

6 of his mother, and this66 mystery on
F56

the image and ???

62 Compare in Mandaic: rirẖ daiib upumẖ ptia, “his saliva is dripping and his mouth is
open” (DC 43E:8 // DC 20: 18-20). DC 43 here provides the better reading but was
erroneously read in C. Müller-Kessler, “A Mandaic Incantation against an
Anonymous Dew Causing Fright (Drower Collection 20 and its variant 43 E),” Aram
22 (2010): 453–57, at 460.

63 The words here look like voces magicae, but one would expect instructions such as
“Take mud, fashion a figurine,” etc.

64 Presumably the text is referring to the production of a “voodoo doll,” writing on its
forehead, sticking needles in it, etc.