Note 1 — CHAP. VII.
Reading edition
: Mahawanso, ch. xxvii, p. 163.
2: EASTLAKE'S Materials for a History of Oil Painting, ch. i. p. 18.
3: Aetius [Greek: Biblion iatrikon.]
4: Tila or tala is the Singhalese name for sesamum from which the natives express the gingeli oil. SIR CHARLES L. EASTLAKE is of opinion that "sesamum cannot be called a drying oil in the ordinary acceptation of the term," but in this passage of the Mahawanso, it is mentioned as being used as a cement. A question has been raised in favour of the claim of the Egyptians to the use of oil in the decoration of their mummy cases, but the probability is that they were coloured in tempera and their permanency afterwards secured by a varnish.