Greece/Byzantium/Turkey: Heuresis (right) present Dioscorides (left) with a mandrake root, from the Codex Vienna Dioscorides, 512 CE. The first author picture from the Vienna Dioscorides (fol. 4 verso): Heuresis (the personification of discovery) presents the physician Dioscorides with a mandrake root. Since these should emit a deadly scream when harvested, they were pulled out of the ground by a dog. Heurensis therefore has the dead animal lying at her feet. The Vienna Dioscurides/Dioscorides is an early 6th century illuminated manuscript of De Materia Medica by Pedanius Dioscorides.

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