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Introduction
List of symptoms (P.Bagnall 1). Small, dark brown papyrus scrap (6 x 6.3 cm) broken on all sides and written along the fibers on the recto (verso blank). The papyrus preserves an anonymous medical text with a diagnostic chart arranged in a thick series of symptoms, clinical records, and prognosis, according to schemes typical of the Corpus Hippocraticum. The described pathology is not recognizable, but is connected to convulsive episodes affecting the face and the neck. Some lexical peculiarities (see commentary below) make us think of Soranus' works. Bookhand with a vertical trend and ornaments at the edges of verticals and diagonals of κ, ν, ρ, υ; other palaeographical peculiarities point to a late-1st-century AD bookhand (cf. e.g. PSI 10.1174; P.Oxy 6.878; P.Oxy.19.2221; P.Tebt. 2.678 = GMP 2.2. A datation between the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd century AD is coherent with the production of other medical books from Tebtunis (e.g. PSI 10.1180; PSI inv. 3054 = GMP II 1).
(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Isabella Andorlini and Nicola Reggiani 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 (I. Andorlini, P.Bagnall 1).)
1[ -ca.?- ] ̣(*)[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ἰσ]χ̣υ̣ρῷ ἢ̣ ὁ̣μ̣[ -ca.?- ](*)
[ -ca.?- ν]ῆ̣στις(*) ἂν εἴη κα̣[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣(*)[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]σ̣ῳ̣ τ̣ι̣ν[ ̣](*) πα̣ρ̣ε̣πόμενα̣ τ̣υ̣γ̣χ̣ά̣[νουσι -ca.?- ]
5[ -ca.?- ] τ̣οῦ ἄνω· ἐπερχομένων μὲν δ̣[ιὰ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]ν̣(*) καὶ παρισθμίων, καὶ δυσχε̣[ρ-](*) [ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]ι̣ς(*) καὶ χει̣ρ̣ῶ̣[ν](*) σπάργησις π̣ροα[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- κ]ο̣ιλότης ὀμμάτων καὶ το̣σ̣ο̣\ῦ/[τον](*) [ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ](*) [ἐπ]ὶ̣ τοῦ β̣ρ̣έ̣γ̣μ̣α̣τος· βαρύτης, σκλη[ρία](*) [ -ca.?- ]
10[ -ca.?- μετ]ώ̣που(*) καὶ τοῦ τραχήλου καὶ τῆς [ -ca.?- ](*)
[ -ca.?- σπασ]μ̣ῶν(*), ἐ̣ρ̣εισμὸς ὀδόντων κ̣[αὶ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- χρ]ό̣νιος, ὅτε δὲ πυκνὴ εἰς τ̣[ὴν -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]α̣ν̣(*) ̣[ ̣] ̣ν̣ω̣ς ὡς τὸ πολ̣ὺ̣ [ -ca.?- ](*)
[ -ca.?- ἔτ]ι̣ δὲ μᾶλλον ἕως τῆς ἐ[νάτης -ca.?- ]
15[ -ca.?- ](*) [πε]ν̣τ̣εκαιδεκάτης ἡ[μέρας]
[ -ca.?- ] ̣(*)[ -ca.?- ]
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Apparatus
^ 1. or β̣
^ 2. or ὁ̣μ̣[οίως -ca.?- ], or ὁ̣μ̣[αλ -ca.?- ]
^ 3. or [ -ca.?- ]ι̣ς τις
^ 3. or α̣ι̣, or ̣α̣
^ 4. or [ -ca.?- ]σ̣ε̣ι̣τ̣ι̣ν[ ̣]
^ 5-6. or δ̣[ιὰ] | [τὴν φλεγμονὴ(?)]ν̣, or δ̣[ιὰ] | [τοῦτο ἀντιάδω(?)]ν̣
^ 6. or δυσχω̣[ρ-]
^ 7. or [ -ca.?- χόνδρωσ(?)]ι̣ς
^ 7. or χει̣λ̣ῶ̣[ν]
^ 8. corr. ex το̣σ̣ο̣⟦ν̣⟧[τον]
^ 8-9. or [διὰ | βάθους ὡς καὶ], or [τὸ κοῖλον ὁς καὶ]
^ 9. or σκλη[ρότης]
^ 10. or [προσ]ώ̣που
^ 10. or [ῥινός -ca.?- ], or [κεφαλῆς -ca.?- ]
^ 11. or [ -ca.?- ] ὤ̣τ̣ων, or [σιαγό]ν̣ων
^ 13. or [ -ca.?- ἡμέρ(?)]α̣ν̣
^ 13. or [κρίνεται(?) -ca.?- ], or [λύεται(?) -ca.?- ]
^ 14-15. or [ἢ τρισκαι|δεκάτης ἢ]
^ 16. or α̣, or μ̣
Notes
- 2.
ὁμαλ poss. ὁμαλός, indicating the "uniform" degree of a physiological fact, as opposed to ἰσχυρός "altered, violent" (cf. Hp. Aph. 7.21 ἐπὶ ἰσχυρῷ σφυγμῷ vs Gal. Diff.puls. 1.9 = 8.518,11-12 K ὁμαλὸς ἁπλῶς ὁ τοιοῦτος καλεῖται σφυγμός).
- 3.
νῆστις ("fasting") cf. Hp. Prorrh. 2.4, p.228,10 Potter (καὶ νῆστις ἂν ἔτι ἐστί). Otherwise, διάθεσ]ί̣ς̣ τις (e.g.) is possible; or the name of a disease ending in -ις; or ] ἥ̣τις ἂν εἴη as well. The optative ἂν εἴη expresses the desire as expectation of a preceding hypothesis, according to the conjectural mechanism of prognosis (cf. Fausti 2005).
- 4.
e.g. νό]σ̣ῳ̣ τ̣ι̣ν[ὶ] vel διαθέ]σ̣ε̣[ι] τ̣ι̣ν[ὶ] vel στά]σ̣ε̣[ι] τ̣ι̣ν[ὶ] vel sim.
- 5.
ἄνω for a possible reference to the top of the head cf. Orib. Coll. 7.1,1 = CMG 6.1,1 p.208,2-3 Raeder (κατὰ τὰ ἄνω μέρη τοῦ μετώπου καὶ πρὸς τῷ βρέγματι). ἐπερχομένων refers to a progression of phenomena affecting the tonsils (παρισθμίων, l. 6).
- 6.
On παρίσθμια cf. Ps.Gal. Intr. 9.5, p.34 Petit = 14.713,9-11 K.
δυσχερ- e.g. δυσχε̣[ρῶς "with pain", or also δυσχε̣[ρεστέρων, δυσχε̣[ρῶν, δυσχε̣[ρειῶν.
- 7.
σπάργησις ("swelling") is a rare term, used only by Dioscorides ( MM 2.107,3; 3.34,2; 5.3,2; Eup. 1.126,1) and Soranus ( Gyn. 2.7).
- 8.
κοιλότης ὀμμάτων is a Hippocratic phrase referring to sunken eyes: cf. Coac. 8.214 = 5.632,2-3 L.
- 9.
On βρέγμα (the articulation point between the frontal bone and the parietal bones) see Gal. Oss. 14, pp.48-9 Garofalo.
- 11.
ἐρεισμὸς ὀδόντων cf. Sor. Gyn. 26,3 (συνέρεισις ὀδόντων). ἐρεισμός is almost a hapax (more common is ἔρεισμα), occurring only in Eus. Comm.Is. on Aquila's translation of the Septuaginta. This peculiar coincidence may point to a wider diffusion of the term in the spoken Greek between 1st and 2nd cent. AD.