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Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X

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Metadata

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
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

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1يوخذ على بركة الله وعونه وقية
2قصدير يعمل فى بودقة وتدوب
3 وتطاعم بزرنيخ حتى تنقص التلت
4تخرج تنكسر درهم منها على عشرة زهرة
5ودرهمين حجر ملك القمر
1Let there be taken with God’s blessing and help an ounce
2of tin and put into a crucible and melted
3and treated with orpiment till it loses a third
4when it should be taken out brittle; one dirham fort en of copper
5and two dirhams of silver
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

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

 

Literature

 

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.