Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra — Diagram Inscriptions

Translation: Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra — Diagram Inscriptions · Cleopatra the Alchemist (attributed; transmitted via Greek alchemical MSS) · source: Berthelot, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs, vol. I (Introduction), 1887, pp. 132-137 (figs. 11-13); archive.org collectiondesanc01bert

Author:: Anonymous (associated with Cleopatra the alchemist)
Form:: diagram inscriptions
Approx. date:: c. 200 CE

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Diagram inscriptions on the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra the Alchemist — a 1st–3rd c. CE Greek alchemical figure (Ouroboros + apparatus) attributed pseudonymously to Cleopatra. Project translation from the Greek of MSS Marc. gr. 299, Paris gr. 2325, and Paris gr. 2327, with Berthelot's 1887 French as bridge; see /about/translations/.

Source context· Egyptian-Hebrew stream · Egypto-Chaldean cultural impulse

Stream: Egyptian-Hebrew
Cultural impulse: Egypto-Chaldean (3rd post-Atlantean cultural age)
Composed: c. 200 CE
Written down: Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch

1Diagram Inscriptions (Figures 11, 12, 13)
Alchemical diagram inscriptions encoding the unity of opposites and the circular nature of transmutation in Hellenistic proto-chemistry
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