Incantation bowl — Amulet Atlas A plain earthenware bowl with writing inside it. The text is inked in a spiral that starts at the rim and winds inward to the centre, most often in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, sometimes Mandaic, Syriac, Arabic or… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/incantation-bowl/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K
Joseph Naveh — Amulet Atlas Israeli epigrapher and palaeographer, 1928–2011, who read the writing on the amulets. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/joseph-naveh/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Shaul Shaked — Amulet Atlas Israeli Iranist and philologist, 1933–2021, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/person/shaul-shaked/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 29K
Washing off the ink — Amulet Atlas The charm written and then destroyed on purpose, so that a person can take it. Words are written inside a bowl, water is poured in, the writing comes off into the water, and the water is drunk. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/practice/washing-off-ink/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
Ink — Amulet Atlas Pigment suspended in a liquid: charcoal and water in West Africa, sometimes with saffron added, and driven under the skin elsewhere. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/material/ink/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 39K
Amulets — Amulet Atlas The things themselves: worn, buried, nailed above a door, folded into a pocket. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulets/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 68K
Materials — Amulet Atlas Carnelian, iron, amber, coral, paper, hair, salt — and what survives. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/materials/ · 19-Sep-2026 · 81K
Practical Kabbalah — Amulet Atlas The branch of Jewish mysticism that makes things: amulets and incantations built from divine and angelic names, written on parchment or cut into silver, and carried, hung or worn. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/jewish-practical-kabbalah/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 45K
Islamic talismanic craft — Amulet Atlas Writing, worn. The tradition makes protective objects out of text — Qur'anic verses, the ninety-nine names of God, names of angels and prophets, pious phrases, invocations — set on paper, parchment, metal, cloth or a… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/tradition/islamic-talismanic/ · 17-Sep-2026 · 50K
Budge's amulet plates — Amulet Atlas Twenty-two plates and three hundred in-text illustrations bound into a 543-page book: E. A. Wallis Budge's "Amulets and superstitions", published in London and New York by Oxford University Press and H. Milford in 1930. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/budge-plates/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
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