Commenting on Metatron in Jewish traditions, Martin Samuel Cohen wrote that:
The title "great prince of x" is found with respect to Metatron in some of the Aramaic incantation bowls originally published by Cyrus Gordon in the Archiv Orientalni. In his article "Aramaic Magical Bowls in the Istanbul and Baghdad Museums, " Archiv Orientalni 6(1934), pp. 319-334 and 466-474, Gordon gives a text in which Metatron is called 'isra rabba dekurseh 'the great prince of the Throne.' In a bowl, the text of which Gordon published in his "Aramaic and Mandaic Magical Bowls," Archiv Orientalni 9(1937), pp. 84-95, Metatron is called 'isra rabbah dekuleh calma 'the great prince of the entire world.' Both texts were reprinted in C. Isbell, Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls (Missoula, 1975), where they are assigned numbers 49 and 56. The importance of the bowls for establishing the antiquity of rabbinic texts is quite unstudied, as are these texts generally. In another text, published by James Montgomery in his Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur (Philadelphia, 1913), where it is text no. 25, Metatron is definitely identified with the God of Israel in a passage that reads "Blessed art Thou, O Lord ... Your name is Yofi'el; they call You Yehi'el Sasnagi'el, YHVH, and .. .Hermes [?, Aramaic: 'rmsh], Metatron, Yah ... This is text no. 34 in the Isbell edition. The identification of Metatron and God is perhaps related to the standard designation of Metatron as the Lesser YHVH. On the other hand, R. Isaac of Akko himself wrote, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, that the entire Shicur Qomah applies, actually, to Metatron, and not at all to God. (Martin Samuel Cohen, The Shi’ur Qomah: Liturgy and Theurgy in Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish Mysticism [Lanham, Md.: University of America Press, 1983], 159 n. 119)
Here are the corpus bowls assigned nos. 49 and 56 from
Charles D. Isbell, Corpus of the Aramaic Incantation Bowls (Atlanta: SBL
Press, 1975; repr., Eugene, Oreg.: Wipf and Stock, 2008), 112-13, 127-28:
