Bound are the demons (1)

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Mandaic Incantation Bowl:
In the name of Life! Health, armament, sealing, and guarding may there be to the house, the dwelling, the mansion, and the building, and the body, the wife, the sons, and the daughters, and the cattle, the property, the slaves, and the handmaids of Šrula the son of Duktanuba, the husband, and to the wife, Qaqay the daughter of KRPṢTˀ. Bound and shut by the mystery of the great Abyss (tḫˀm rbˀ) and by the command of Buznai, the angel. Bound and shut is Ištar [ … ...] she and the three hundred and sixty tribes and amulet-spirits, which are left to her in every place. They are bound and fettered and placed under the left heel of Šrula the son of Duktanuba. All the mysteries of darkness are bound by the mystery which is in the great Abyss and by the command of the great Bagdat, which is Hutbiz, in marriage (??). Praised is Life! Nergal of the wasp is bound and the god of the house of generation(s). They and all their incantations (?) and their tribes and their sorcery-spirits and their devils and their amulet-spirits and their Liliths and their evil designs, their sorceries and their iniquities and the designs of their hearts (away) from Šrula the son of Duktanuba and from his wife and from his sons and from all of his mansion and his building and his dwelling. All of them are bound and placed under the left heel of Šrula the son of Duktanuba. And praised is (Life): And may there be health and sealing and guarding to his house, his dwelling, his mansion, and his building, his wife, his sons and his daughters, his cattle, his property, his slaves, his handmaids, and (to) him who enters or leaves (the house) of Šrula the son of Duktanuba. And life is victorious!

Source (list of abbreviations)
Mandaic Incantation Bowl

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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