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Title | Medical codex |
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Author | unknown |
Summary | Contains the end of one recipe (ll. 1-3) and a complete recipe (ll. 4-6), possibly against hardened skin eruptions on the face, cf. note on l. 4 in ed.Line 6 was the last line of the page of the codex. The part written by the owner of the codex, ll. 7-14, contains some personal notes concerning his own experiences with the recipe and its usefulness. |
Citations | Youtie LC, ZPE 70, 76-78, 1987, Pl II Youtie LC, PMich XVII, 758, 59-61, 1996, Pl VIIIa |
Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 21 |
Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 9 x 8 cm. |
Condition | Broken at all sides. A square piece of papyrus lost in the bottom right corner. |
Lines | 1-14 |
Recto/Verso | Source of description: H; Recto |
Hands | For a general description of the palaeography, see electronic version of 21 a-m. In l. 4 a new recipe begins. The scribe did not indent this line or leave a space before it, but between ll. 3 - 4 he did separate the new recipe from the preceding with a paragraphos connected to two marks of parenthesis in the margin. Another unusual palaeographical feature of this page is a sign located in the margin of ll. 8-9, repeated twice in the margins of 21m, 5-6 and 7-8. This sign is a vertical double-curved line with a horizontal stroke in the middle, appears to indicate that the physician-owner is giving his own experience with the recipe in ll. 7-9. Another special feature is the familiar symbol for chrestos, "good", "useful", "effective" in l. 10 immediately followed by the unusual symbol consisting of two + +, of which the second is slightly above the line. This symbol, which might be another way to indicate the beginning of a new recipe, might be a stylized representation of lambda with an abbreviation mark = l(ambane), l(abe) = Lat. R(ecipe), "take". |
Origin | unknown |
Date | IVth century A.D. |
Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
Note (general) | Pub. status: Recto |
Note (related) | - |
Subjects | -; Literary; medicine; Papyrus |
Images | Recto medium |
Images | Recto large |
License | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
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