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A Babylonian Jewish Aramaic Magical Booklet from the Damascus Genizah 31*

2 no chicken has mounted and ??? and ‫ מא‬86‫לם יצעד עליה דגיגיה‬
slaughter/cook F 85
‫ותכרא ואדבח‬

3 and put it on the egg(?)/in his hand(?) and ‫ בידה ואגעלוה מן‬87‫איג עלה‬
F 86

??? from the sackcloth garment and bury it [‫אלמיסח ואדפ]נוה‬

4 under an oven. 0–0 For (going before) a ‫ לשייללטטווןן‬0––0ֽ ‫ְתחתֽ תנור‬

governor: ʾṬFWT ṬWFY ‫ טֽופי‬88‫ְאטפֽות‬
F87
5 RPT ŠTS SDM RGM DRWS A(men)
A(men) S(ela). Say? (it) over ֽ ַ ְַ ְַ ְ ִ ְַ
‫ַר ְפת שתסס ַססְדדםם ַררְגגםם ַדדר ֽרווסס‬

''‫א א ס ק •• עע‬

6 straw from a locked gate ??? ••‫גילה מן באבא סכירא בֿח ע‬

7 and place it behind your ear,90 and write 89‫ואותיב בתר אודנך וכתוב‬
F98 F8
.‫•• ֿמיֿע‬
??? amulet(?)

8 and (it is) good and tried and tested. 0–0 0–0 ‫וטב ומנסי ובדיק‬

Folio 5b

1 Do (it) for your Name, for the sake of [‫לשמך עשה למען ֿש]מך‬
[your name]. This amulet ‫מזמן הדין‬

2 is ap p o inted91 for the name of NN, that '‫קמיעא על שום פ'ב'פ‬
F90 ‫דתיפתח ליביה‬

you may open his

86 Lege: ‫דג'ג'ה‬, i.e. ‫דג'אג'ה‬.

87 Lege: ‫?אגעלה‬

88 The magic words are vocalized with Babylonian vocalization.

89 There is a hole, or some other irregularity in the parchment, that was clearly there
before the scribe began writing his text.

90 Note a somewhat similar recipe in Bod. Heb. e 74.21 (a folio from the same
manuscript as the two fragments published by Schäfer and Shaked, Magische Texte
III, no. 69, which display a Babylonian vocalization): '‫ אמור ג‬:‫להנצל מעת צרה‬
‫פעמים על קטר של תבן לגת לגם סכר בלם ותן אותו אחורי אזניך‬, “to be saved from a
time of trouble, say three times over a knot of hay LGT LGM SKR BLM and place it
behind your ear.”

91 This is a common formula in the bowls, e.g.: ‫מזמן הדין קמיעה לאסותא לנטרתא‬
-‫ולחתמתא דביתיה ד‬, “This amulet is appointed for the healing and protection and
sealing of the house of . . .” (Gordon A:1, published in C. H. Gordon, “Aramaic Magic