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]
1[μα]στίχης γρ̣(αμμ- )(*) [ -ca.?- ]
μ̣έλιτος vac. ? [ -ca.?- ]
ν̣αρτοστάχ(υος)(*) γρ̣(αμμ- )(*) vac. ? [ -ca.?- ]
ὑ(*)σώπου(*) γρ̣(αμμ- )(*) vac. ? [ -ca.?- ]
Editorial History; All History; (detailed)
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Notes
- 1, 3-4.
The blank spaces left after the abbreviation marks suggest a quantity of 1 gram.