Abstract
Three fragments of a jug bearing traces of an Arabic inscription were recovered from the French Hospital Compound. Based on the script, the vessel dates to the late ninth–early tenth centuries CE. The inscription seems to imply that the jug had contained medicine, probably purchased from the pharmacy in powdered form as a remedy for headache, indigestion or shivers accompanying a fever.
Keywords
Early Islamic period, pharmacology, epigraphy
Recommended Citation
Amitai-Preiss, Nitzan
(2020)
"Remains of an Arabic Inscription on a Vessel from the French Hospital Compound, Yafo (Jaffa) (Hebrew, pp. 39*–40*; English summary, p. 537),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 100, Article 19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.2097
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol100/iss1/19
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