Introduction
Medical recipe. Fragment (5.8 x 3.3. cm) of a papyrus sheet broken at the left, bottom and right sides. The scrap preserves very scanty remains of three lines of writing on the verso (recto is blank). The brevity and the lacunosity of this fragment make the positive determination of its meaning extremely difficult, but the mention of a dose expressed in ounces (l. 2) and the sequence -ροκηλ- possibly referring to diseases like e.g. ἐντεροκήλη or ὑδροκήλη (l. 3) suggest that the papyrus could have contained at least one medical recipe. The space intentionally left blank after l. 3 may indicate the end of the sheet, but it may have also been used to separate two or more recipes. The text was copied in a cursive hand assignable to the 5th cent. AD.
(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Luca Iori, with former contributions by Mara Conti and Valentina Riccò, 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 (J.-L. Fournet, P.TestiMed., pp. 177-9 = SB XXVIII 17136). 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: 69030 [xml]
1[ -ca.?- ] ̣ ̣ ̣α ̣(*)[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ ο(ὐ)γ(κία) α
[ -ca.?- ]ροκηλ[ -ca.?- ](*)
vac. ?
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Notes
- 1.
α or α̅: the sign after α can be an overstroke but also part of a following character.
- 3.
For these kinds of diseases (various types of tumours of the scrotum) cf. [Gal.] Introd. XIV 788.7-10 K. τῶν δὲ περὶ ὄσχεον συνισταμένων ὄγκων εἴδη εἰσὶν ἑπτὰ, ὑδροκήλη, πωροκήλη, στεατοκήλη, σαρκοκήλη, ἐπιπλοκήλη, κιρσοκήλη, ἐντεροκήλη; [Gal.] Def.med. XIX 447.8ff. K. ὄγκοι ἐν ὀσχέῳ ἐννέα συνίστανται ὑδροκήλη, ἐντεροκήλη, ὑδρεντεροκήλη, κιρσοκήλη, πωροκήλη, ἐπιπλοκήλη, ἐντεροεπιπλοκήλη, ἐντεροπωροκήλη, ὑδροκιρσοκήλη. ὑδροκήλη ἐστὶν ἀργοῦ ὑγροῦ σύστασις κατὰ μέρος τοῦ ὀσχέου. ἐντεροκήλη ἐστὶν ἐντέρου κατολίσθησις εἰς τὸ ὄσχεον κατὰ βραχὺ ἢ ἀθρόως. αἰτίαι δὲ ἐντεροκήλης ἡ προκαταρκτικὴ ἔντασις ἢ πληγὴ, συνεκτικὴ δὲ ἀπέκτασις ἢ ῥῆξις τοῦ περιτοναίου. ὑδρεντεροκήλη ἐστὶν ἐντέρου κατολίσθησις καὶ ἀργοῦ ὑγροῦ συλλογὴ κατὰ τὸν ὄσχεον. κιρσοκήλη ἐστὶν ἀνευρυσμὸς καὶ μεγεθοποίησίς τινων ἢ πάντων τῶν τρεφόντων τὸν δίδυμον ἀγγείων. ὑδροκιρσοκήλη ἐστὶν ἀνευρυσμὸς τῶν τρεφόντων τὸν δίδυμον ἀγγείων καὶ ἀργοῦ ὑγροῦ συλλογὴ κατά τι μέρος τοῦ ὀσχέου. πωροκήλη ἐστὶ πώρων σύστασις κατά τι μέρος τοῦ ὀσχέου. ἐπιπλοκήλη ἐστὶν ὀλίσθησις ἐπίπλου κατὰ τὸ μέρος τοῦ ὀσχέου. ἐντεροεπιπλοκήλη ἐστὶν ὀλίσθησις ἐντέρου τε καὶ ἐπίπλου κατὰ τὸ μέρος τοῦ ὀσχέου. κήλη ἐστὶν ὄγκος περιεκτικός τινος τῶν προειρημένων· πᾶς γὰρ ὄγκος ἐν ὀσχέῳ κήλη λέγεται.