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Title Medical prescription for eye-salve
translation 52297. Louise C. Youtie, "O. Bodl. II 2182 and 2185.," BASP, 14 (1977), pp. 39-43. 41
Previous Edition
  • - 5277. John Gavin Tait and Claire Préaux eds., Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Vol. II. Ostraca of the Roman and Byzantine Periods., (London 1955). 2185
  • - 56033. Hans-Albert Rupprecht and Joachim Hengstl eds., "Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vierzehnter Band. Zweites Heft (Nr. 11595-11937)." Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vierzehnter Band. Zweites Heft (Nr. 11595-11937)., 193-354. 11709
  • - 41878. Claire Préaux, "Les prescriptions médicales des ostraca grecs de la Bibliothèque Bodléenne.," ChrEg, 31 (1956), pp. 135-148.
  • - 52297. Louise C. Youtie, "O. Bodl. II 2182 and 2185.," BASP, 14 (1977), pp. 39-43.
Catalog(s) MP3 02428.000
Fragments Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1418
Support Material pottery
Date IV (?)
More from the period between 301 CE and 400 CE
Origin Fundort: Dios Polis (Peri Thebas, Egypt); Schreibort: Dios Polis (Peri Thebas, Egypt)
More from Fundort: Dios Polis (Peri Thebas, Egypt); Schreibort: Dios Polis (Peri Thebas, Egypt)
Form and Layout pottery sheet (columns: 0, pagination: 0)
Genre prescription; recipe
Culture science; medicine
Print Illustrations Liège
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

Trismegistos: 64503 [source]

Publications O. Bodl. 2 2185 (Tait, John Gavin / Préaux, Claire; 1955) = Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) 14 (1977), p. 40-43 (Youtie, Louise C. / ; 1977) = SB 14 11709 (Rupprecht, Hans-Albert / Hengstl, Joachim; 1982)
Inv. no. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1418
Date AD 300 - 399?
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U04b - Dios Polis (Thebes east)[found & written]

Introduction

Prescription for an eye-salve (O.Bodl. II 2185 = SB XIV 11709). The text is written on the recto of an ostracon and preserves a list of ingredients normally found in ophthalmological recipes (erica, acacia and gum in acharista ; tragacanth in pilaria ). The hand is a rude uncial assignable to the 4th cent. AD.

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Luca Iori 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 editions (ed.pr. = C. Préaux, O.Bodl. II 2185; ed.alt. = C. Préaux, CE 31, 1956, 143-4; ed.ter. = L.C. Youtie, BASP 14, 1977, 41-4 = SB XIV 11709). 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).)

DCLP transcription: 64503 [xml]

κ̣ο̣λ̣λ̣ύ̣ρ̣ι̣ο̣ν̣ δι’ ἐρίκης(*)·
καδ̣μ̣ί̣α̣ς(*) (δραχμαὶ) λβ, κ̣<ρ>όκου(*)
[(δραχμαὶ)] η̣(*),ἐρίκης(*) (δραχμαὶ) ϛ,
[ζ]μ̣ύ̣ρ̣νης(*) (δραχμαὶ) ιβ ἥμι-
5 [συ], [ἀ]κ̣α̣κίας
[(δραχμαὶ)   ̣  ̣](*), κόμεως(*) (δραχμαὶ) κδ,
[τραγ]α̣κάνθης
[(δραχμαὶ)   ̣, ὀπ]ί̣ο̣υ̣(*) (δραχμαὶ) ϛ βρέχε(*)
[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]α̣κάνθη(*)
10[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]τη
  ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]

Apparatus


^ 1. l. ἐρείκης, - ca.11 - (δραχμαὶ) κα prev. ed.
^ 2. l. καδμείας,   ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣ prev. ed.
^ 2. κ̣ό<κ>κου ed.alt. : κ̣<ρ>όκου (or κ̣ό<κ>κου) ed.pr.
^ 3.   ̣  ̣  ̣ prev. ed.
^ 3. l. ἐρείκης
^ 4.   ̣  ̣  ̣νης: (or ῥ̣ε̣τ̣ί̣νης) prev. ed.
^ 6.   ̣  ̣ prev. ed.
^ 6. l. κόμμεως
^ 8. [  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣] prev. ed.
^ 8-9. ed.alt., ed.ter. : β̣ρεχο (or β̣ρεχό|[μενος]) ed.pr.
^ 9. [  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]  ̣κάνθη prev. ed.

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Notes

  • 2.

    Above α̣ς and below the second omicron of κ̣ο̣λ̣λ̣υ̣ρ̣ι̣ο̣ν̣ (l. 1), is an unexplained short horizontal.

  • 8.

    Préaux (ed.alt.) suggests that βρέχε̣ (“moisten”) may have concluded the recipe, and a new one begun in l. 9. It is also possible, however, that directions for making the salve occupied another three or more lines (see Gal. Comp.med.sec.loc. 1.8 [12, 491.8]; Orib., Syn . 3.90 [CMG 6.3, 92.18 Raed.]; Paul.Aeg. 7.11.5 [CMG 9.2, 294.22 Heib.]).