Another Christian Syriac Amulet on Leather? Ms Or. 2480The Syriac Annals of the Romanian AcademySyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/WVG9TZZA/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Erica C. D.HunterAnother Christian Syriac Amulet on Leather? Ms Or. 2480http://syriaca.org/cbss/WVG9TZZAhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/WVG9TZZAhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/WVG9TZZAThe Syriac Annals of the Romanian Academy3202369-121Ms Or. 2480 is a single vellum leaf with 47 lines of text on the recto side in an eastern Estrangela Syriac script. With a posited 7th century dating, it was written for a woman client Xvarr-Vehg-zad called Yazdan-zadag, who is also the subject of three amulets published by Philippe Gignoux in Inscriptions Syriaques Magiques (Louvain-Paris: 1987). The article offers a translation and commentary of Ms Or. 2480, together with a comparative appraisal of its terminology that clearly situates the amulet within the repertoire of Mesopotamian incantation bowls. Ms Or. 2480 is distinguished by its opening Trinity formula; raising the question of scribal practice: whether he did so in response to Xvarr-Vehg-zad being a Christian? Or was the Trinity formula acting in the capacity of a vox magica?
Hunter, Erica C. D. “Another Christian Syriac Amulet on Leather? Ms Or. 2480.” The Syriac Annals of the Romanian Academy 3 (2023): 69–121. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59277/SARA.2023.04.
Erica C. D. Hunter, Another Christian Syriac Amulet on Leather? Ms Or. 2480,The Syriac Annals of the Romanian Academy 3 (2023): 69–121, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59277/SARA.2023.04.