Introduction
Medical recipe (O.Stras. I 619). Ostrakon with a bilingual prescription for a medical preparation, with six ingredients in Demotic measured in staters, and four in Greek measured in drachmas. Some of the Demotic ingredients are transliterations of the Greek terms ([g̣]ḥḷg̣tsis = χαλκῖτιδος and s3ntr3gis = σανδαράκης, cf. W. Clarysse, Greek Loan-Words in Demotic, in Aspects of Demotic Lexicography , ed. by S.P. Vleeming, Leuven 1987, 10, 28, 31).
(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Francesca Corazza as part of the Project "DIGMEDTEXT - Online Humanities Scholarship: A Digital Medical Library based on Ancient Texts" (ERC-AdG-2013, Grant Agreement no. 339828) funded by the European Research Council at the University of Parma (Principal Investigator: Prof. Isabella Andorlini). The digital edition is mostly based on the previous edition (P. Viereck - W. Spiegelberg, O.Stras. I 619). Revised and commented 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).)
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Notes
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σανδαράκη or σανδαράχη ("realgar", red sulphide of arsenic, or "orpiment", yellow sulphide of arsenic) is normally feminine but see σανδαράχου in Gal. Comp.med.loc. XII 828.4 K. Both spellings are attested in medical literature and in the papyri (with χ: P.Michael 36.5 ζανδαράχης; with κ: P.Oxy. LXXIV 4979.5, P.Ryl. III 531.16, perhaps P.Ant. III 214d.B.1).