As usually happens when rummaging through one's grandparents' attic, I unwittingly discovered a seemingly ancient papyrus manuscript. It was stored in an old tin box along with some utensils. I carefully removed and unfolded the paper and this is what I saw:
What could it be?
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1$\begingroup$ Bravo! I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought that Matura MT was the right script for parchment: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/105275 $\endgroup$– SlowMagicMay 21 at 14:17
2 Answers
This is
a "cookbook" of sorts! If you replace each element with its symbol (and the two backwards elements with their symbols backwards), you can anagram each group to get an Italian food:
Bi S Te C Ca
F Ag I O Li
La S Ag Na
mA C Ar O Ni
Ra V I O Li
S P Ag H eT Ti
The black shapes above each group are the silhouettes of the food being made.
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$\begingroup$ Nice! And just for completion, what is the significance of the black shapes? And the title? $\endgroup$– capMay 20 at 3:16
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$\begingroup$ @cap Ah, added the shapes. Not sure about the title, though... $\endgroup$– Deusovi ♦May 20 at 3:31
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3$\begingroup$ rot13(V guvax gur gvgyr vf fbzr nantenz, cbffvoyl ZL VGNYVNA XVGPURA) $\endgroup$ May 20 at 8:51
In addition to Deusovi's answer,
The title is an anagram of 'MY ITALIAN KITCHEN'