The book of Eccesiasticus ( Sirach ) 24 : 15 alludes to the sacred incense speaking of a pleasant odour like the best myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, [ in antiquity Styrax was referred to as Storax ] and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle . Either myrrh was treated with styrax or by the time of the first temple period a fifth ingredient was added to the ketoret.
42.
Dr . John Hill writes : The " Arabians " in general have confounded the solid and liquid storax together; some of their writers however have distinguished them, as Avicenna, who treats of the liquid storax under the name " Miha " ( i . e . " mai?ah " ), and of the dry under those of " Astarac " and " Lebni " .
43.
Dr . John Hill writes : The " Arabians " in general have confounded the solid and liquid storax together; some of their writers however have distinguished them, as Avicenna, who treats of the liquid storax under the name " Miha " ( i . e . " mai?ah " ), and of the dry under those of " Astarac " and " Lebni " .
44.
"There are imported into this place from, Egypt, a little wheat and wine, as at Muza ( present day : Mocha, Yemen ); clothing in the Arabian style, plain and common and most of it spurious; and copper and tin and coral and storax and other things such as go to Muza; and for the King usually wrought gold and silver plate, also horses, images, and thin clothing of fine quality.
45.
An examination of the product around 1808 noted " we do not discover any property that can possibly entitle it to the appellation of a balsam, but the propriety of the term vegetable, we cannot dispute, as vinegar, sugar, and honey are vegetable productions . " The product claimed to be produced from forty-two different vegetables, preserved separately in syrups, mixed with other gums and ingredients, and dissolved in double-distilled vinegar with some storax dissolved in spirits of wine and oil of cinnamon.
46.
Lucas lists labdanum ( along with frankincense, myrrh, galbanum, and storax ) among the only materials most certain to have been used in ancient Egypt and that labdanum " was abundant in the countries bordering the Mediterranean with which Egypt had intercourse . He writes that in the Bible it is stated that certain merchants carried ladanum into Egypt from Gilead ( Genesis, xxxvii : 25, Revised Version ) and that Jacob sent ladanum to Egypt as a present to his son Joseph ( Genesis, xliii : II Revised Version ) . Newberry reports that the ancient Egyptians were acquainted with labdanum as early as the 1st century.
