Beschat-schemat
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Beschat-schemat Bš3t-šmˁt Beschat-schemat-oil |
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Beschat-schemat is the ancient Egyptian name of an oil that was already documented as a commodity in the early days of Egypt.
From the grave of Semerchet ( 1st Dynasty ) near Abydos comes an annual tablet that originally belonged to a container of oils. It contains the label (Beschat-schemat) Oil of the first-choice quality from the plant MJ . Günter Dreyer thinks it is possible that this oil could have been imported from Libya .
literature
- Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800–950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 279.
- Kathryn A. Bard: The Emergence of the Egyptian State (c.3200-2686 BC) . In: Ian Shaw: The Oxford history of ancient Egypt . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-1928-0293-3 , pp. 57-82.
- Toby Wilkinson : Early Dynastic Egypt . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-4151-8633-1 , p. 66
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Hannig: Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German : p. 279.
- ^ Toby Wilkinson: Early Dynastic Egypt . P. 66 with reference to Günter Dreyer.