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Medical Prescription

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Accession: P.Penn. Museum inv.E16258
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: 10th-11 CE
Date: 10th-11 CE
Date range: 900 CE – 1099 CE
Materials: ['15.8 x 15.0cm. Paper has been folded several times according to the width, and the creases are still apparent. Otherwise in good condition. Right and left margins are even; top margin slightly torn, still very even; bottom margin slants slightly downward in a relatively straight line from left to right. Shade of paper darkens to light brown in center; dark spot at top right corner, perhaps burn mark, which however blocks no text. Sprawling black ink writing clearly visible on top half; part of last line faded.']
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Description

Side 1 (Recto): Prescriptions and recipes for the same. (Records payment of three, four, and seven dirhams. [S.L. Skoss]) Side 2 (Verso): Arabic Accounts on Paper. Index to a book of accounts (see DV, no. 55, p. 113-115).

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Found at Egypt

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APIS-Text upenn.apis.106 tier-1

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