ThePapyrus Graecus Holmiensis (also known as theStockholm papyrus) is a collection of craft recipes compiled inEgyptc. 300 AD. It is written inGreek. The Stockholm papyrus has 154 recipes for dyeing, coloring gemstones, cleaning (purifying) pearls, and imitation gold and silver.[1] Certain of them may derive from thePseudo-Democritus.Zosimos of Panopolis, an Egyptianalchemist ofc. 300 AD, gives similar recipes. Some of these recipes are found in medieval Latin collections of technological recipes, notably theMappae clavicula.
Leyden papyrus X derives from the same (or very similar) sources, and is written in a similar (possibly the same) hand, using chemically identical ink.[2][3] The Stockholm papyrus and Leyden papyrus X were both found in Thebes byGiovanni Anastasi, who donated the Leyden papyrus to the Dutch government in 1828 and the Stockholm papyrus to the Swedish government in 1832. The Stockholm papyrus was first published byOtto Lagercrantz in 1913. Whereas Leyden papyrus X deals with metallurgy, the Stockholm papyrus deals with gems, pearls and textile dyeing.[4]
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