Matching “pharma” / “small plants” labels in context

[Anton]

Hi Marco,

The shared labels between jars and plants would be something difficult to explain indeed. The fact would suggest that the label is not a name, but rather a shared attribute (quantity is the first that comes to mind). However, that does not very much fit the general layout of the pharma blocks which (the layout, I mean) suggests that jars are meant to represent the outcome, the result of preparation, while the rows of plants rightwards to the jars are meant to represent the respective ingredients. In this case, it would not be clear, in the first place, where do we find the name of the outcome (but OK, suppose we do find it in the nearby paragraph text), and, in the second place, what attribute would suit both the ingredient and the product (quantity, apparently, would not, because the part cannot be the same in quantity as the whole).

But what I doubt is whether the labels are really shared, if we abstain from assumptions such as glyph equivalence.

If I am not mistaken and miss nothing from your examples, then it appears that there are, strictly speaking, only two candidate matches:

• otoldy (jar f89r2 - plant You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - plant f99v)
  
• otaldy (jar You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - plant f101v2)
  

Consider otoldy in f89r2. I'm not certain that it refers to the jar. It might refer to the leaves of the plant to the right, the root of which is described as okol shol dy. One may argue that that would leave the jar unlabeled. But the case of the jar below looks quite such: it is unlabeled, with six plants and six labels, leaving no label for the jar (alternative interpretation would be that it is the rightmost root that is unlabeled, while the jar is labeled korainy)

Consider otaldy in f88r. Does it refer to the jar or to the root? I would say that it refers to the root, because the label is much closer to the root than to the jar.

To sum it up, there are only two candidate matches with neither of those being a certain match. In this circumstance, I believe that there are no solid grounds to state that the phenomenon of shared labels ever exists.