Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur

James A. Montgomery's Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur, published by the University Museum in Philadelphia in 1913, is the first substantial scholarly edition of the Aramaic incantation bowls recovered from the University of Pennsylvania's own excavations at Nippur. Its authority rests on Montgomery's direct scholarly access to the excavated bowls themselves and its standing as the founding publication for this entire category of Jewish Babylonian magical text. Its limit is age: more than a century of subsequent Aramaic epigraphy and incantation bowl scholarship, including the modern critical editions this atlas also cites, has refined and in places corrected readings a 1913 edition could not have benefited from, so a specific textual reading is better checked against the newer critical literature.