A brass magic bowl, Syria, Ottoman period, 16th-18th century

of shallow form with a raised omphalos with spiral flutes, engraved on the interior with alternating circular and oblong cartouches and on the exterior with radial petal panels filled with talismanic inscriptions

For related examples of talismanic bowls in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, see Wiet, G., Catalogue Générale du Musée Arabe de Caire: Objets en Cuivre, Cairo, 1932, pls.LX-LXIII