Identified in book as TOP: Black pepper. Piper nigrum. MARGIN: White pepper. BOTTOM: Ginger. Zingiber officinale. After an illustration by Mirza Baqir in a 19th century Iranian book of Greek physician and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides's 1st century AD work De Materia Medica.


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