σμύρνα,
frequently written ζμύρνα as in [[ “PSI” 4.328.2 (3rd c.BC), “PTeb.” 35.4 (2nd c.BC), “PMag.Par.” 1.781, etc., ἡ,= μύρρα] Refs 3rd c.BC+], myrrh, the gum of an Arabian tree, Balsamodendron Myrrha (itself called σμύρνα [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 3.14.4, 2nd c.AD(?): Antoninus Liberalis Mythographus 34.5)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], used for embalming the dead, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40, 86, compare 73, NT.John.19.39 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; called σμύρνης ἱδρώς by [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1175 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; burnt as incense, βωμὸς ἀτμίζων πυρὶ σμύρνης σταλαγμούς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 370 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑποθυμιῆν σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; used as an unguent or salve, σμύρνῃ κατάλειπτος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1332; σμύρνῃ ἰώμενοι τὰ ἕλκεα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.181; compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.1.2, 9.4.3 and 10, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.64, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II Indian bdellium, Balsamodendron Mukul, [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 6.22.4. (The originally form must have been μύρρα, from 3rd c.BC: Phoenix Iambographus ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] môrâh; compare κιννάμωμον.)