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Introduction

Title tag. Narrow fragment (6.5x7.5 cm) containing the title of a medical prescription for the treatment of fractures of the foot, gout, and stiffened joints. The prescription itself may have been for an emollient or plaster. It may well be a medicine tag, according to I. Andorlini, ANRW 2.37.1 (1993), p. 532 no. 156, and P.Prag. 3, pp. 157-8. There is an upper margin of 1.3 cm, left and right margins of 0.5-1 cm. The verso is blank. The large letters, in very black ink, are individually made and not ill-formed.There is no evidence of Byzantine tendencies, but the papyrus has a paralell with similarly made letters re-dated to the 4th cent. AD (P.Corn. 29).

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by M. Blanco and Margherita Centenari 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 (L.C. Youtie, SB XIV 12141).)

Notes

• 5-6.

  There is no significance in the fact that the writer had already twice written καί correctly.

• 6.

  The remnant of the unread letter is the beginning of an upper horizontal, suitable for π or τ. Perhaps αὐτ[ῶν πόνον (or ὀδύνην): Cels. Med. V 18.29 ((CML I, 200,5 Marx).