[Sca-cooks] Spice Storage

[Pat]

I don't think it was used for storage, but there is a picture of a 13th century Jewish spice box (or b'samim box) from Spain at http://www.fathom.com/feature/190130/ .  The box is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
That might be a place to start your research.
Mordonna

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
I currently keep most of my spices generally in a dark place in screw 
top glass jars that i've bought - and I have labels on the bottles in 
Arabic.

There's a Collegium coming up soon and they asked folks to make 
displays. So i'm thinking of putting together a bunch of my stuff. I 
want to print out my articles on the two 13th century spice boxes and 
put spices on display in containers labeled in Arabic.

Some European stuff suggests that at least in some times and places 
spices were kept in leather pouches (14th c. France, IIRC)

But i haven't found any clear information on in what sorts of 
containers the Arabs and related cultures kept their spices.

Has anyone come across any related information?
-- 
Urtatim, formerly Anahita
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Pat Griffin
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