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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 5
Current Location	private collection
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
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
Script, Primary	Arabic
Language, Primary	Arabic
Comments on Text Layout	Localization of the text unknown/uncertain, Text layout unknown
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	13

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 \| scientific \| Alchemical presciption
Summary of Content	Prescription for a medicine made from ammonia, salt, natron, silver, and other ingredients ground and boiled on fire.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text	Margoliouth mentioned that the purpose of this prescription is not ststed. In line 5 the word ابق is a deckname of mercury; in 1, 8 حي علم is for حي عالم sempervivum, in English house-leek. Doubtless the juice is meant here as there, in 1, 12تصحب probably means (be obedient), I. e. (serviceable). Sempervivum. but i think حي علم is Aptenia cordifolia wich is a species of succulent plant in the iceplant family known by the common names heartleaf iceplant and baby sun rose. Perhaps known as an ornamental plant.
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Islam

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1	الله ولى الاحسان‬‬
2	يوخذ على بركة وعونه
3	جر ملح اندراني وجر نشادر بلوري
4	وجر حب حنضل وجر نطرون وجر
5	شب يمانى وزن تمن ابق ويسحق
6	‮ الحوايج الجميع وتخلطـهم وتجد‬‬‬
7	سحقهم جيد تم تاخذ فضة تسحلها
8	على المسن بخل خمر وان كان حي
9	علم فهو اجود وتجعل الفضه والخل
10	فى مقعرة حديد ويغلى حتى يسقي جيد
11	ويرمى عليهم الحوائج وتحرك جيد
12	وتحط حتى تبرد وتحب وتعمل
13	الله المعين

1	God is the author of favour.
2	Let there be taken with his blessing and help
3	part of the andranian salt, and part of a crystalline ammonia
4	and part of colocynth grain, and part of natron, and part of
5	yemenian alum, weight eighth mercury, and grinding
6	all things, and confuse them and find
7	crush them well, then take the silver crush it
8	On the sharpener with vintage vinegar and if he was Aptenia
9	cordifolia it is the finest, and make silver and vinegar
10	In a concave iron, boil until well absorb
11	then put stuff, and turn around well
12	Let it cool, pull and operate
13	God is the helper

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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). (p. 256.)

DatasetID	309578
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	464009
Author	Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309578 (= Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.