On some readings and interpretations in the Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts

This study takes a new look at a number of obscure passages in the Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts discussed in Christa Müller-Kessler's article "More on puzzling words and spellings in Aramaic incantation bowls and related texts", published in BSOAS 75/1, 2012, 1-31. Among the words discussed are 'wild boar', 'wailing', 'overthrower (type of demon)', 'burning' and 'protectors', all new to the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic lexicon, 'tusk' and "'broken' sounds of the shofar (as a maleficent force)", which show new meanings for previously attested lexemes, and the new plural form 'maidservants'. Additional evidence for the words or expressions 'attack (a type of demon)', 'helper' / 'help', (a divine epithet), (a type of demon), (a hard metal) and 'shofars (a type of demon)' is also adduced and a preliminary edition of the magic bowl Nippur 12 N 387 is presented.