The Materiality of Magic

Bremmer, Jan Ν.; Dieleman, Jacco; Feldt, Laura; Curbera, Jaime; Giannobile, Sergio; Gordon, Richard L.; Dasen, Véronique; Nagy, Árpád M.; Dijkstra, J.H.F.; Blänsdorf, Jürgen; Hoek, Annewies van den; Feissel, Denis; Herrmann, John J.; Forshaw, Peter J.; Davies, Owen

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“…In particular, we hope this example will contribute to the ongoing study of the materiality of magic (e.g. Boschung & Bremmer 2015;Houlbrook & Armitage 2015b), as well as the meaning of non-normative burials (e.g. Betsinger et al 2020).…”

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“…Studies that include artefacts used in magic are a recent phenomenon (e.g. Wilburn 2012;Houlbrook & Armitage 2015b;Boschung & Bremmer 2015;Hutton 2015) and can be understood as part of the so-called 'material turn' in archaeological studies that began in the 1980s (Bremmer 2015: 9). For current purposes, we adopt the methods set out in a number of recent publications.…”

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Magical practices? A non-normative Roman imperial cremation at Sagalassos

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Many thousands of burials have been excavated from across the Roman world, documenting a variety of funerary practices and rites. Individual burials, however, sometimes stand out for their atypical characteristics. The authors report the discovery of a cremation burial from ancient Sagalassos that differs from contemporaneous funerary deposits. In this specific context, the cremated human remains were not retrieved but buried in situ, surrounded by a scattering of intentionally bent nails, and carefully sealed beneath a raft of tiles and a layer of lime. For each of these practices, textual and archaeological parallels can be found elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean world, collectively suggesting that magical beliefs were at work.

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Transferring performativity from speech to writing: illocutionary acts and incantation bowls

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Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This article considers the interface between orality and textuality in the Aramaic incantation bowls, as well as the use of performative utterances in the texts of their spells. It demonstrates that writing and writtenness were central to bowl praxis as a whole, and argues that the bowls reflect a growing understanding of writing as performative in itself. In light of this, it suggests that the use of illocutionary acts in the bowl texts reflects the (gradual and ongoing) transfer of performativity from speech to writing in Sasanian Mesopotamia. Such acts of “word magic” in the bowls as oaths and curses are more likely to represent transitional language or a kind of “oral residue” than the verbatim representation of speech or spoken acts.

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Magical practices? A non-normative Roman imperial cremation at Sagalassos

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