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Title Medical prescription or list of ingredients
Principal Edition 17911. Isabella Andorlini, Testi medici su papiro. Atti del Seminario di studio (Firenze, 3-4 giugno 2002). (Progetto Corpus dei Papiri Greci di Medicina.) , (Firenze 2004). 179-180
Reference Edition 95274. Andrea Jördens , Rodney Ast , Joachim Hengstel , Julia Lougovaya , and Antonia Sarria eds., Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Achtundzwanzigster Band (Nr. 16832-17270), (Wiesbaden 2013). 17137
Catalog(s) MP3 02410.140
Archive Doctor’s library
Fragments Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres P.Acad. Inv. Nr. 6b
Support Material papyrus
Support Dimensions 6cm wide x 8.8cm high
Date V
More from the period between 401 CE and 500 CE
Origin Fundort: Lykopolites, Egypt; Schreibort: Egypt
More from Fundort: Lykopolites, Egypt; Schreibort: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus sheet (pagination: 0)
Genre prescription; ingredients
Culture science; medicine
Print Illustrations P.TestiMed., Tav. XI (Fig. 3)
Availability © Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

Trismegistos: 69031 [source]

Publications SB 28 17137 (2013) = Andorlini (ed.), Testi medici su papiro. Atti del seminario di studio Firenze 2002 p. 179-180 no. 3 (2004)
Inv. no. Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres pap. 6 b
Date AD 400 - 499
Language Greek
Provenance Egypt, U13 - Lykopolites[found]; Egypt[written]
Archive Doctor’s library

Introduction

Medical recipe or list of ingredients (P.TestiMed., pp. 179-80). Fragment (6 x 8.8 cm) of a papyrus sheet consisting of two smaller scraps broken at the top and right-hand sides. The recto contains only 4 lines of writing (verso is blank). The bottom margin survives to a height of 2.5 cm. The brevity and the lacunosity of this fragment make the positive determination of its meaning extremely difficult: the four ingredients listed (mastic, honey, spikenard, hyssop) may belong to the final section of a recipe, the heading of which has been unfortunately lost. Given the well-known therapeutic effects of these substances against stomach and intestinal disorders (Dsc. MM I 70.3, III 25; Gal. Simpl. XII 84.16 K.), we can suppose that the treatment may have been focused on these parts of the body. The text is copied in a semi-uncial hand assignable to the 5th cent. AD.

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Luca Iori, with former contributions by Mara Conti, 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. 179-80 = SB XXVIII 17137). 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: 69031 [xml]

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1[μα]στίχης γρ̣(αμμ- )(*) [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
μ̣έλιτος ⁦ vac. ? ⁩ [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
ν̣αρτοστάχ(υος)(*) γρ̣(αμμ- )(*) ⁦ vac. ? ⁩ [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]
ὑ(*)σώπου(*) γρ̣(αμμ- )(*) ⁦ vac. ? ⁩ [⁦ -ca.?- ⁩]

Apparatus


^ 1. or γρ̣(άμμα)
^ 3. l. ν̣αρδοστάχυος
^ 3. or γρ̣(άμμα)
^ 4. l. ὑσσώπου : ϋσωπου papyrus
^ 4. or γρ̣(άμμα)

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Notes

  • 1, 3-4.

    The blank spaces left after the abbreviation marks suggest a quantity of 1 gram.