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DOI Artikel:Majda, Tadeusz: The Musilm magical-medicinal Bowl in the Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw
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2. The Muslim
Mogicol-Medicinal Bowl,
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
v. 8, LXXXV, v. 21-’3 and LXXXVI, v. 5. The entire surra Al-Fatiha is very of-
ten included (the first sura of the Koran).
Apart from the texts and representations of the planets, signs of the zodiak,
the Kaaha shrine and animals, magical squares (wifq) are also depicted on the
bowls, the arrangements of number letters (buduh, jadwal), Solomon’s seal, ge-
ometric figures, numbers fake-letters (cryptograms), and so-called ocularic let-
ters. Moreover, explanations of the bowl’s healing qualities are also to be
found, together with lists of illnesses and disorders which the liquid held in the
given bowl should be applied for curation.
Among the bowls referred to in publications until the present, Persian
bowls, such as those contained in the collections of London’s Victoria and
Albert Museum8, are particularly worthy of note for their artistic decoration,
a bowl in New York’s Brooklyn Museum9, the Mohammed bowl at Runan dis-
cussed in a publication by W Hein10 and the howl belonging to the Oriental Art
Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw.
8 Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, Victoria and
Albert Museum Catalogue, London 1982, no. 125, pp. 290-292.
9 The Brooklyn Museum, inv. no. 73.52.1.
10 W. Hein, “Tasa Muhammad von Runan”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 53,
1957, p. 283.
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Mogicol-Medicinal Bowl,
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
v. 8, LXXXV, v. 21-’3 and LXXXVI, v. 5. The entire surra Al-Fatiha is very of-
ten included (the first sura of the Koran).
Apart from the texts and representations of the planets, signs of the zodiak,
the Kaaha shrine and animals, magical squares (wifq) are also depicted on the
bowls, the arrangements of number letters (buduh, jadwal), Solomon’s seal, ge-
ometric figures, numbers fake-letters (cryptograms), and so-called ocularic let-
ters. Moreover, explanations of the bowl’s healing qualities are also to be
found, together with lists of illnesses and disorders which the liquid held in the
given bowl should be applied for curation.
Among the bowls referred to in publications until the present, Persian
bowls, such as those contained in the collections of London’s Victoria and
Albert Museum8, are particularly worthy of note for their artistic decoration,
a bowl in New York’s Brooklyn Museum9, the Mohammed bowl at Runan dis-
cussed in a publication by W Hein10 and the howl belonging to the Oriental Art
Collections of the National Museum in Warsaw.
8 Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, Victoria and
Albert Museum Catalogue, London 1982, no. 125, pp. 290-292.
9 The Brooklyn Museum, inv. no. 73.52.1.
10 W. Hein, “Tasa Muhammad von Runan”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 53,
1957, p. 283.
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