The corpus of late antique Babylonian incantation bowls comprises a class of double-bowl sets, consisting of two bowls facing each other, fastened together with bitumen. Occasionally, such bowl sets ...have been found to contain inscribed egg shells or human bones. The double-bowl configuration is highly reminiscent of the double-jar burial practice attested in Mesopotamia from the second millennium to the sixth century bce. The double-jar (or double-pot) burial involved placing the deceased between two wide-mouthed jars, occasionally joining them with bitumen at the rims. This article explores the double-bowl configuration and suggests a connection between double-jar burials and the later ritual artifacts of the Sasanian period. The double-bowl sets attached with bitumen may have originated on analogy to the ancient burial practice, intending symbolically to bury evil entities or human adversaries.
Bridging Voice and Identity Porter, Trista Reis
Southern cultures,
09/2017, Letnik:
23, Številka:
3
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Just as the most iconic or familiar of things have the capacity to complicate and contradict what we know of southern life, unpredictable things can exemplify both paradoxical and iconic realities. ...This is the story of Chris Luther's Bridge Bowl, an unexpected southern thing, both a container and a bridge itself. Made in Seagrove, North Carolina, by a fourth-generation potter, the Bridge Bowl tells the familiar story of this particular place in the Piedmont and the landscape, people, traditions, and ideas that animate it. At the same time, it speaks of globalization, the increasing circulation of ideas and images around the world, and their ever-evolving manifestations in the American South.
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Sanctified by War Rosengarten, Dale
Southern cultures,
09/2017, Letnik:
23, Številka:
3
Journal Article
This is the story of two silver bowls whose journeys since the decade of the American Civil War make interesting narratives in themselves because they follow closely what the late French historian ...Marc Bloch called "the vicissitudes of life." The tale is one of return, and of loss averted, reassuring to white southerners, Christians and Jews alike, who felt the world as they knew it had vanished. The bowls became shining emblems of the Lost Cause, a quasi-religious fervor grounded in a fictional version of the past, disregarding the system of enslavement and terror that created antebellum wealth. Sanctified by war, the vessels ascended to the status of sacred relics. The first bowl went missing sometime after February 17, 1865, the date Union forces occupied Columbia, South Carolina. The small silver object, property of Charleston's historic synagogue Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, had been sent for safekeeping to the state capital, along with the congregation's Torah, candelabra, pipe organ, and other valuables, to keep them out of the hands of the enemy. In one of the great miscalculations of the war, many South Carolinians believed the Yankees would come up the coast and attack Charleston. Instead, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops crossed the Savannah River and turned inland toward Columbia. In the conflagration and chaos that ensued, a great deal of property went up in smoke, or was carried off as spoils of war.
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The article presents a detailed comparative study of kava mixing bowls associated with the cultural complex of the West Polynesian kava-circle and its Fijian yaqona-circle offshoot. By ...cross-referencing archaeological evidence, documented collection histories and bowl typologies a clearer picture emerges of the centres where the bowls were produced and the formal evolution of these vessels, and also illustrates in a unique way how different groups of people and goods moved and were moved around Western Polynesia in the 18th and 19th century.
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Once Again on the Unique Incantation Bowl BM 135563 Kwasman, Theodore; Koln, Universitat Zu; Muller-Kessler, Christa ...
Journal of the American Oriental Society,
04/2012, Letnik:
132, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Many editions of bowls, however, are old and outdated, and are in need of re-editing or at least collation. ...there is a parallel need in Aramaic Studies to edit and publish new bowl texts on the ...one hand and to re-edit and collate older editions on the other. 1 First editions of texts are not an easy undertaking. ...the transliteration system is not our own but the standard employed for all Semitic languages in the academic world. 1 1 All transliteration systems have minor faults, including that of Hebrew, which cannot represent double consonants.
The date of 224/3 for the introduction of Hellenistic moldmade relief bowls at Athens is reexamined-and subsequently reaffirmed-in light of a recent downward shift in the chronology of Rhodian ...amphoras. The process of introduction is traced in detail, using a model of the innovation process based on recent inventions. The implications of the stratigraphic record at the Athenian Agora for our understanding of the introduction of innovations in general, and of this innovation in particular, are discussed. The sparse representation of the moldmade bowl in later 3rd-century deposits may indicate slow acceptance of the new type, but more likely reflects the time that it takes for objects to enter the archaeological record.
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