During the Babylonian era, incantation bowls, sometimes known as a demon bowl, a magic bowl or a devil-trap bowl, were used as protective magic.
Judaism has a history of aniconism - "opposition to the use of icons or visual images to depict living creatures or religious figures." (wikipedia) These bowls, found in archeological digs, are one of the few times in Jewish history where icons were allowed.
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