Le formule medico-terapeutiche delle coppe magiche islamiche

This article focuses on a group of 80 Islamic magic-medicinal bowls in bronze or copper alloy, bearing an Arabic therapeutic formula which is generally executed on the outside, beneath the rim. In addition to specifying various conditions for which the bowls could be useful, the inscriptions have several interesting features. The most important of these features being the quotation of the name of some characters of great historical importance (but almost always having a lot of inconsistencies), the mode of the bowls’ use and the time of their production.