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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments........................................................................................................................................... 9

Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................11

Incantation bowls, mirror plaques and figurines, and amulets: a survey of the
literature.................................................................................................................................................................18

Chapter one: Stylistic aspects of the figures on the incantation bowls..................23
Composition.......................................................................................................................................................27
Organization of elements and stages in creating the bowl.......................................27
Different types of borders.................................................................................................................32
Compositions with several figures.............................................................................................35
The figures...........................................................................................................................................................36
Comportment of the figures...........................................................................................................36
Facial features and expression.....................................................................................................36
Elements of the head: hair, horns, and various head coverings.............................38
Limbs..............................................................................................................................................................45
Genitals and erogenous zones......................................................................................................52
Items of clothing.....................................................................................................................................56
Means of binding, bound position, and absence of binding.....................................59
The figure of the magician........................................................................................................................64
Depictions of animals...................................................................................................................................65
Usual ways of depicting demons.........................................................................................................67
Technique.............................................................................................................................................................69
Artists and their craft....................................................................................................................................70
Bowls featured in the catalogue created by a single artist...............................71

Chapter two: Paintings on the incantation bowls: the fruit of the Jewish artists’
imagination, or part of the cultural fabric within which they emerged?.....................77
The bowls’ composition design.............................................................................................................77
The design and composition of Persian amulets and their relation to
the incantation bowls..........................................................................................................................83
Similarity in composition between the bowls and amulet pendants
from Syria and Palestine...........................................................................................................................87