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Aramaic Incantation Bowls
This text is included as a comparative, historical, philosophical, ritual, textual, or fragmentary witness. It is not presented as part of the Restored Bible.
Archive witness — presented for historical study only. Not doctrine and not recommended practice.
Aramaic Incantation Bowls
[Archive witness: an ancient protective or ritual text, preserved as historical evidence — not doctrine, and not for practice.]
Earthenware bowls inscribed in spiraling Aramaic, buried in the homes of late antiquity to guard the household. The texts name the client and seek to bind the spirits said to trouble them. Representative wording:
“This bowl is appointed for the sealing of the house and the threshold of so-and-so, son of so-and-so, and of his wife and his children: that there depart from them every evil spirit, every tormentor, and every lilith, by the name of the Lord of heaven and earth. [Line damaged]”
“Bound and sealed are you, you spirits, from this house and from these who dwell in it; as the earth is sealed, so be you sealed; in the name of the God who made heaven and earth. Amen, amen, selah.”
[The bowls survive in great number; representative wording is given.]