Semen Sesami indici (antiquissimum usque hodie omnium in regiones ad orientem Indiae repertorum) inter vestigia archaeobotanica latebat apud locum archaeologicum Phu Khao Thong qui emporium fuit itinerum mercatoriorum inter India et Serica a saeculo IV ad I a.C.n.[1]
1330 : Hu Si-hui, Propria ad mensam Imperatoris principia (Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, edd. et interprr., A Soup for the Qan: Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Szu-hui's Yin-shan cheng-yao [Londinii: Kegan Paul, 2000] p. 522 et alibi)
1548 : William Turner, The Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duch and Frenche. Londinii: John Day, 1548 (s.v. Sesama apud Google Books) (Sesama dyd I neuer see in England, but I haue sene it in Italy, and it maye be called in englishe, sesame or oyle seede, for of al seede it is moste oylie)
1750 : Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Herbarium Amboinense (Amstelaedami: Chanquion, 1741-1750) vol. 5 p. 204, tab. 76; cf. E. D. Merrill, An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense. Manilae: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Bureau of Science, 1917 p. 469
