Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 541
und upside down in the ground, as will beseen from the illustration on page 448. It is very evidentthat they had been placed thus intentionally, in order to pre-vent the demons adjured by the spiral inscription on theinner face of most of the vases, from doing any harm to the ^ Comp. p. 337 with p.… … Hebrew Incantation Bowls in their Original PositionSe-ve>: placed upside doiun, one icith the inscribed face upivard under the bowl. This egg, like the inscribed skulls previ-ously reported (comp. p. 440), is probablv to be regardedas a sacrifice to those demons to appease their wrath andcheck…
