Mandaic lead rolls

Mandaic lead rolls, sometimes also known as Mandaic amulets or sheets, which are related to Palestinian and Syrian metal amulets, are a specific term for a writing medium containing incantations in the Mandaic script incised onto lead sheets[1] with a pin.[2][3] Some Mandaic incantations are found on gold and silver sheets.[4][5] They are rolled up and then inserted into a metal capsule with loops on it to be worn around the neck on a string or necklace.[6][5]

  1. ^ There exist also one specimen of unknown provenance with an ink inscription written in an Aramaic script on lead, see Markham J. Geller, "More Magic Spells and Formulae: C. Babylonian Jewish_Aramaic amulet", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 60 (1970), pp. 331–333, pl. III–IV.
  2. ^ François Lenormant, Essai sur la propagation de l’alphabet phénicien dans l’ancien monde, vol. II (Paris, 1872), pls. X–XI.
  3. ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, Mandäisch: Eine Zauberschale, in Hans Ulrich Steymans and Thomas Staubli (eds.), Von den Schriften zur (Heiligen) Schrift (Freiburg, CH: Bibel+Orient Museum, Stuttgart Katholisches Bibelwerk e.V., 2012), pp. 132–135. ISBN 978-3-940743-76-3
  4. ^ Christa Müller-Kessler, A Mandaic Gold Amulet in the British Museum, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 311, 1998, pp. 84–85, fig. 1–2 [hand drawing].
  5. ^ a b Christa Müller-Kessler, Zauberschalen und ihre Umwelt. Ein Überblick über das Schreibmedium Zauberschale, in Jens Kamran, Rolf Schäfer, Markus Witte (eds.), Zauber und Magie im antiken Palästina und in seiner Umwelt (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 46; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017), p. 68, fig. 5.1 [hand drawing]. ISBN 3447050594
  6. ^ Karlheinz Kessler, Das wahre Ende Babyloniens — Die Tradition der Aramäer, Mandäer, Juden und Manichäer, in Joachim Marzahn and Günther Schauerte (eds.), Babylon. Mythos und Wahrheit (München: Hirmer, 2008), p. 475, fig. 338. ISBN 978-3-7774-4295-2