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[… ? lines lost …] λιβάνου δραχμαὶ β ἀμμωνιακοῦ δραχμαὶ β ὀποπάνακος δραχμαὶ β κηροῦ δραχμαὶ β ῥητίνης τερεβινθίνης δραχμαὶ β ἀποζύματος δραχμαὶ β
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 144647
List of ingredients for a medical preparation TM 144647Didymoi
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Ostracon from the Roman fort of Didymoi in the Eastern Desert listing ingredients, each 2 drachmas: frankincense, ammoniacum, opopanax, wax, terebinth resin and a decoction. The beginning is lost. The list reads like the ingredients of a medical plaster or salve.
In English machine translation
[…]
frankincense, 2 drachmas
ammoniacum, 2 drachmas
opopanax, 2 drachmas
wax, 2 drachmas
terebinth resin, 2 drachmas
decoction, 2 drachmas
Catalogued as an account, but the substances and equal drachma weights suggest a pharmaceutical recipe, with drachmas as units of weight rather than money. 'Apozyma' is a decoction or boiled extract.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Comptes). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.