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Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X

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Collection

Inventory Number	Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X
Publication Number	P.MargoliouthMonneret I 1 b
Current Location	private collection
Publication Permission Status	no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Monneret, M. G. Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	The western bank of the nile opposite Aswan
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	paper
Dating of Object	Abbasid rule (I) 1. 1. 801 - 12. 31. 1517 CE
Dating	between 801 and 1517
Range of Preservation	(undecidable)

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	(unknown/uncertain)
Inks and Pigments	unknown
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Arabic
Language, Primary	Arabic
Comments on Text Layout	Localization of the text unknown/uncertain, Text layout unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5

Text Content

Modern Title	Alchemical prescription
Ancient Author of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	(Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Text Types	scientific \| medicine \| prescription
Summary of Content	Medicine prescription about how to make a medication using tin and orpiment, through put them into a crucible and melted it.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Letter ḏāl wrote as dāl in the first and third lines in the words (ywʾkhdh, tudawab), thā wrote as tā in the third line in the word (al-thūlth)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Islam

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1	يوخذ على بركة الله وعونه وقية
2	قصدير يعمل فى بودقة وتدوب
3	وتطاعم بزرنيخ حتى تنقص التلت
4	تخرج تنكسر درهم منها على عشرة زهرة
5	ودرهمين حجر ملك القمر

1	Let there be taken with God’s blessing and help an ounce
2	of tin and put into a crucible and melted
3	and treated with orpiment till it loses a third
4	when it should be taken out brittle; one dirham fort en of copper
5	and two dirhams of silver

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Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Arabic Period				801 January 1 CE	;

Literature

Margoliouth, D. S & Holmyard, E. J, Arabic documents from the Monneret Collection (1931). (pp. 250-251.)

DatasetID	309576
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	464007
Author	Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309576 (= Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.