0582849 - FLÚ 2024 RIV eng A - Abstract
Wilde, Heike - Míčková, Diana - Coughlin, Sean
The antu-list reconsidered. A synoptic reading of Edfu and Athribis ingredients.
[Studies on Ancient Plants. Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Perspectives. Bologna, 13.02.2023-14.02.2023]
Method of presentation: Zvaná přednáška
Event organizer: Università di Bologna
URL events: https://alchemeast.eu/2023/01/19/studies-on-ancient-plants-multidisciplinary-approaches-and-new-perspectives/ 
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GM21-30494M
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : myrrh * antu * aromatic substances * history of perfumery * history of botany * Ptolemic Egpyt * Edfu * Athribis
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

The Temple of Edfu, dedicated to Horus, is the best-preserved temple of that period with a laboratory that records ingredient lists, instructions, and recipe texts relating to perfume making for ritual purposes. In that laboratory, on the west-wall in the first register and opposite to the entrance, is inscribed a list of aromatic substances used for anointing divine bodies (statuary) in the temple cult. It includes 14 varieties of tree exudates referred to as antu and conventionally translated as “myrrh.” Our paper focuses on multidisciplinary and complementary methods of producing an edition of this rare text using a parallel found at the Temple of Athribis and of our prospects for identifying the resins named in the list. We will present some preliminary results based on approaches from several disciplines: philology, Egyptology, Greco-Roman studies, archaeology, botany, and experimental.

Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0351631