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Title TM 65633
Content medical treatise (a fragment on apoplexy) in form of catechism
Reference Edition 38906. John Wintour Baldwin Barns, "Literary Texts from the Fayûm.," CQ, 43 (1949), pp. 1-8.
Catalog(s) MP3 02370.000
Fragments Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms EES number unknown
Support Material papyrus
Date II v. Chr.
More from the period between 200 BCE and 101 BCE
Origin Found: Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Arsinoites (Egypt)
More from Found: Krokodilopolis (Arsinoites, Egypt); written: Arsinoites (Egypt)
Form and Layout papyrus fragment, palimpsest (columns: 0, pagination: 0)
Genre prose; medicine; catechism
Culture literature; science
Religion classical
Print Illustrations Liège
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Trismegistos: 65633 [source]

Publications Classical Quarterly 43 (1949), p. 4-5 no. 3 (1949)
Inv. no. Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms EES number unknown
Date BC 199 - 100
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, 00 - Arsinoites (Fayum)[written]; Egypt, 00d - Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum)[found]

Introduction

Fragment of medical catechism (?). Small scrap (7 x 6,7 cm) of papyrus of medical content dealing (also) with apoplexy (ll. 5-6). The fact that the ends of ll. 1 and 4 are left blank suggests that the work was in the form of question and answer: cf. P.Mil.Vogl. I 15 + P.Oxy. LXXX 5235, also on apoplexy. The text is written in a clear, firm semi-cursive hand dated to the 2nd cent. BC, and is a palimpsest bearing traces of the original writing (perhaps epic verses).

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Nicola Reggiani 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 (Barns 1949, no. 3))

DCLP transcription: 65633 [xml]

[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]ισι
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]χονδρω[  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣]ομεναδ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]σμου κατεχομενοις [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]ι̣(*) το παθος
5[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩οἱ μ]εν ἐκ φυσεως ἀποπλ̣η̣[κτοι εἰσιν, οἱ δε⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]ἀποπληκτοι γιν[ονται⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]  ̣  ̣κιρσοι μετ̣[⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]

Apparatus


^ 4. or [δια τινα αἰτιαν γινετα]ι̣

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Notes

  • 4.

    For [δια τινα αἰτιαν γινετα]ι̣ see P. Heid.inv. 401 fr. 17, col. I, ll. 12-13.

  • 5.

    The sense seems to be that apoplexy can arise either from a natural predisposition to the disease or from some subsequently acquired condition, with which the κίρσοι mentioned in the next line are connected.