[Sca-cooks] watermelons

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Shifting from the literary record to the carpological record...
 
This account of Gaulish archeology mentions melons (p 196) [persee.fr does  
not allow linking by page]
 
http://persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/dha_0755-7256_2012_num_38
_1_3463
 
This reference is vague - it seems to refer to the first century in Gaul -  
but includes melons (p 98)
http://persee.fr/web/ouvrages/home/prescript/article/acsam_0000-0000_1996_ac
t_5_1_1099
 
This reference says (p 186) that melons were noted from the Gallo-Roman  
period.
 
http://persee.fr/web/revue
s/home/prescript/article/amime_0758-7708_2005_num_23_1_1831
 
And here at last, not only a reference to melons, but to watermelon, in the 
 Gallo-Roman period (p 265):
http://persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/galia_0016-4119_2002_num_
59_1_3052
 
So in Gaul it would seem that both melons in general and watermelons in  
particular can be documented, however lightly, going back to the Gallo  Roman 
period.
 
 
Jim  Chevallier
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In a message dated 7/26/2015 9:21:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com writes:

Thanks,  Guillaume.

Actually, this begins to raise an entirely  different  question: how the 
hell did Anthimus know about ANY kind of   melon?