14-08-2025, 07:21 AM
While my Latin translation was not true, the focus is on the visual / contextual link of "maria" as vessel to Swiss script.
Could "maria" also link to alchemy, given the possible links of script:
1. Maria the Jewess- an early alchemist related to water baths (bain marie).
2. Mare - Latin to sea salt , sometimes used in recipes
3. Four parts-plaster- in medieval medicine plasters- adhesive dressings were sometimes cut into shapes to drain wound fluids.
There are plasters in Latin: Magdalenae ( connected to biblical Maria Magdalena who anoints Jesus' feet with spikenard- John 12:1- 8).
4. Another possibility- any alternatives?
Could "maria" also link to alchemy, given the possible links of script:
1. Maria the Jewess- an early alchemist related to water baths (bain marie).
2. Mare - Latin to sea salt , sometimes used in recipes
3. Four parts-plaster- in medieval medicine plasters- adhesive dressings were sometimes cut into shapes to drain wound fluids.
There are plasters in Latin: Magdalenae ( connected to biblical Maria Magdalena who anoints Jesus' feet with spikenard- John 12:1- 8).
4. Another possibility- any alternatives?