K. Borysławski, A. Niwińska, A. Niwiński, A. Tomaszewska, K. Wasylikowa, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz
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Abstract
The object of the present study is the ancient bulb of the narcissus found on the mummy, probably of the Ptolemaic period, brought to Wroclaw from Italy in the sixteenth century AD. For about four hundred years the mummy was kept by the successive owners of one of pharmacies in Wroclaw, and after the World War II became the possession of Wroclaw University. Computed tomography made in 2002 revealed an atypical object lying under the left hand of the mummy. Extracted in 2004 it appeared to be the bulb of a fl ower, and botanical analysis has revealed that it represents the Narcissus tazetta L. species. Although the narcissus was known in Egypt, its identification in the ancient sources has never been attempted. Thanks to the analysis of the bio-medical properties of the narcissus, compared with some descriptions of remedies proposed by the medical papyri Ebers and Hearts, as well as with some religious magical texts an identification of the sennut plant with narcissus is proposed here.
Etudes et TravauxArts and Humanities-Archeology (arts and humanities)
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Études et Travaux has been published since 1966, initially as a series of the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Études et Travaux / Centre d''Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l''Académie Polonaise des Sciences, ISSN 0079-3566), while since 2011 as an annual of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Sciences (Études et Travaux / Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l''Académie Polonaise des Sciences, ISSN 2084-6762). Since 2014, it has also been published as an open access journal available in electronic form (e-ISSN 2449-9579) on the periodical’s webpage.
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