BackgroundA critical analysis was made of cucurbit descriptions in Dioscorides' De Materia Medica, Columella's De Re Rustica and Pliny's Historia Naturalis, works on medicine, agriculture and natural science of the 1st century ce, as well as the Mishna and Tosefta, compilations of rabbinic law derived from the same time period together with cucurbit images dating from antiquity including paintings, mosaics and sculpture. The goal was to identify taxonomically the Mediterranean cucurbits at the time of the Roman Empire.
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机译：背景对Dioscorides的De Materia Medica，Columella的De Re Rustica和Pliny的Historia Naturalis，1世纪ce的医学，农业和自然科学以及Mishna和Tosefta的阿拉伯文法汇编中的葫芦丝描述进行了批判性分析。来源于同一时期的葫芦图像，包括绘画，马赛克和雕塑等古代的葫芦图像。目的是从分类学上识别罗马帝国时期的地中海葫芦科。
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