DCLP

Introduction

Prescriptions. The papyrus fragment (3.3 x 12.7 cm) is an opistograph and preserves the remains of 13 lines on the recto and 1 line on the verso. It is written on both sides along the fibers since the text on the verso is set at an angle of 90 degrees to that on the recto. Upper, lower and right margins are lost. The text on the front contains a prescription for the eye-salve malabathrinon (ll. 1-12), an aromatic ointment attested with variation in the medical tradition, and the beginning of a second recipe introduced by the paragraphos (l.13). The anthroponym Κολλούσιος written on the back, otherwise unknown, possibly refers to the author or copyist of the recipes. According to its inventory number and style of writing, the manuscript belongs to the Vienna papyri excavated in the Arsinoites or Herakleopolites nome and could be dated to the 5th c. AD.

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Francesca Corazza 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 (F. Mitthof, GMP II 8))

Apparatus

Notes

• 2.

  One could expect the expression νάρδος Ινδική, but such hypothesis is not supported by the blank space following ναρ(). The synonym ναρδοστάχυς is also possible.

• 13.

  Whether we are dealing with genitive or nominative is unclear. Κολλούσιος might also be a variant for Κολλούθιος.