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Introduction

Medical prescriptions for eye-salves (O. Bodl. II 2184). The ostrakon belongs to the Theban medical dossier ( Préaux 1956 ) and preserves the remains of two recipes; five short lines of an incense-based kollyrion survive on the recto, while the verso holds a more readable text belonging to a rose-coloured (?) kollyrion against children's affections. The ingredients mentioned in both recipes fit well with the composition of remedies against skin and eye diseases. The hand (the same as O.Bodl. II 2185 - 2186 ) is a large uncial difficult to date with any precision. The potsherd is certainly assignable to the Byzantine era.

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Margherita Centenari, with former contributions by Luca Iori and Angelica Brunazzi, 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 2184; ed.alt. = C. Préaux, CE 31, 1956, pp. 142-3). 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).)