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Introduction

Medical recipe (P.Oxy. LXXX 5250). On the back of P.Oxy. LXXX 5249 , left-hand parts of the first seven lines of a recipe against spreading ulcers. Upper and left-hand margins of about 0.9 cm are preserved. The slanting cursive hand resembles the second hand of P.Oxy. XIV 1697 dated to AD 242. Particularly interesting is the mention of the origin of the recipe from one Herakleides, though it is too common a name to identify the holder. There does not seem to be any reason to think of Heraclides of Tarentum. The recipe itself bears some resemblance to those of Apollonius Mys ap. Gal. Comp.med.loc. 6.9 (= XII 997.13-998.2 K.). For treatments of spreading ulcers see also Archigenes ap. Gal. Comp.med.gen. 4.10 (= XIII 731.14-733.8 K.), Aet. XIV 49-50.

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Marianna Guareschi during the international workshop "Digital Encoding of Literary and Paraliterary Papyri" (University of Parma, 21-25 October 2019) as part of the MIUR-DAAD Project "EKDOSIS - Digitalizzazione di papiri letterari e paraletterari" funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst at the Universities of Parma (Prof. Massimo Magnani, Prof. Nicola Reggiani) and Würzburg (Prof. Holger Essler). The digital edition is mostly based on the previous edition (W.B Henry, P.Oxy. LXXX 5250). Revised by Nicola Reggiani in the framework of the PRIN 2017 Project "Greek and Latin Literary Papyri from Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Fayum (4th BC – 7th AD): Texts, Contexts, Readers" funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (P.I. Prof. Lucio Del Corso, University of Cassino; Local Research Unit at the University of Parma, coordinator: Prof. Nicola Reggiani).)

Notes

• 2.

  πρ(ὸς) is rendered with the monogram ⳦.

• 6.

  χρ(ῶ) is rendered with the monogram ⳩, πρ(ὸς) with the monogram ⳦.