Introduction
Medical treatise. Fragment (21.3 x 12.6 cm) of a papyrus roll preserving on the verso the upper parts of three consecutive columns. On the recto, traces of an account drawn up in another hand after previous writing has been erased. The text deals with eye-diseases and is divided into different sections separated by paragraphoi and coronides. The best-preserved column (col. II) records disturbances of eyelid motility, vascular alterations, eyelid thickening (ll. 1-6), providing the earliest known occurrence of the term ψωροφθαλμία (see l. 7 and Luiselli 1997, 42-62). At ll. 8ff., another pathological condition is described in association with a number of disorders affecting canthal and palpebral areas. The text is copied in a bookhand assignable to the 1st cent. BC.
DCLP transcription: 69027 [xml]
[ ̣ ̣ ̣](*) ὑ̣πὸ τῶν βλεφάρων
[καλύ]π̣τεσθαι καὶ τὰς ε
[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]υ(*) φλέβας παχυτέ-
[ρας καὶ π]ληρεστέρας φαί-
5[νεσθαι] κ̣αὶ τὸ ὅλον βλέ-
[φαρον π]α̣χύτερον αὐτοῖς
[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣](*) ψωροφθαλμία
[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣](*) [ἀ]λ̣λ ’ ὅταν συμβῆι
[τὰ βλέφα]ρ̣α σ̣κληρότερα
10[εἶναι, τοὺ]ς̣ δ̣ὲ κανθοὺς
[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣](*) [μ]ετεωροτέ-
[ρους καὶ ̣] ̣ ̣ωδ ̣ι̣ς(*) καὶ
[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣υθ ̣ ̣υσ(*)
Editorial History; All History; (detailed)
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Notes
- 2-3.
ἐ[π’αὐτο]ῦ: apparently, ἐπ’ ὀφθαλμοῦ
- 7.
An accidental ink stain is visible just after the last alphaof ψωροφθαλμία, very close to the right edge of the fragment
- 10.
For the supplement εἶναι see Gal. Praesag. ex puls. 3.4 (9.353.6-7 K), Aet. 7.15 (CMG 8.2, 266.4-5 Oliv.), and Dem.Phil. ap. Aet. 7.76 (CMG 8.2, 325.6-8 Oliv.).
- 13.
After theta, a vertical bar followed by an unreadable trace of ink.