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Inventory Number | Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X |
Publication Number | P.MargoliouthMonneret I 3 recto |
Current Location | private collection |
Publication Permission Status | no permission for publication necessary |
Publication Status | published |
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 Type | paper |
Dating of Object | Abbasid rule (I) 1. 1. 801 - 12. 31. 1517 CE |
Dating | between 801 and 1517 |
Range of Preservation | (undecidable) |
Localization of Text on Object | (unknown/uncertain) | |
Script-Fiber-Relation (for Payri) | (unknown) | |
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 | 20 |
Modern Title | Alchemical prescription |
Ancient Author of Text | (Unknown [not mentioned in text]) |
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text | |
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Summary of Content | Medicine prescription about how to make a medication using white sulphur, shellby of eggs and other things, by mixed, pulverize on a stoneand, cook it with oil, and but them on fire. |
Location of Composition | Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
Comments on Text | L.3. white sulphur or milk of sulphur, prepared by adding an acid to a solution of calcium polysulphide. It was well known to Muslim alchemists. L. 13. (The mercury) as a symbolic name for the product just obtained. Or, since the (first drug) is mentioned later, this may be simply mercury and the operations described in line 13-16 may be a purification of it. |
Multilingualism | Script = Language Monolingual |
Religion | Islam |
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RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
Arabic Period | 801 January 1 CE | ; |
DatasetID | 309581 |
last Change | 29.07.2022 |
Trismegistos | 464021 |
Author | Ahmed Kamal |
Dataset License | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA) |
Data set citation | Data set 309581 (= Papr. Rome, Private Collection Monneret de Villard X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |