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Trismegistos 63477 = LDAB 4686



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Introduction

List of drugs. Fragment (6.5 x 8.5 cm) of a papyrus sheet broken on three sides with a broad margin on the left. On the recto, a single column of writing copied along the fibers (verso is blank). The text preserves a list of resins and rubbery substances frequently mentioned in Greek medical literature. The document might be either related to specific therapeutic prescriptions, or it might be a list of pharmaceutical products subject to taxation, or, more simply, a shopping list. The script is a documentary hand assignable to the middle of the 2nd cent. AD.

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1χ[αλκ]οῦ(*) κεκαυμένου[ -ca.?- ]
χαλκίτεως
ἀρ[σ]ενικοῦ(*) σχιστοῦ
ἀ̣λό̣ης Κῴης
5προπόλεως
μ[ιν]ίου
ὀπ̣οπάνακος
χα̣λ̣β̣άνης
ῥη̣τίνης [τ]εττερεβ̣[ινθίνης -ca.?- ]
10κη̣κῖδος
λίθου αἱματίτου
[κινν]α̣βά̣ρεω̣[ς](*) [ -ca.?- ]
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Apparatus


^ 1. κ[ούφου] prev. ed.
^ 3. Ἀρ[μ]ενικοῦ (or ἀρ[σ]ενικοῦ) prev. ed.
^ 12. [ -ca.?- ]λβορε  ̣  ̣[ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.

Notes

  • 1.

    : χ[αλκ]οῦ κεκαυμένου: burnt copper was commonly used to treat skin diseases (Dsc. 5.92 W; Gal. De simpl. medicament. temp. 10.3.36 [12, 242.6-11 K] and Gal. De remed. parab. 2.22 [14, 462.5ff K]).

  • 3.

    Traversa 1966, 307 had already mentioned the possibility to read ἀρ[σ]ενικοῦ (‘arsenic sulfide’). This substance was frequently prescribed to treat nasal ulcers (Thphr. Lap. 40; Dsc. 5.104 W; Gal. De simpl. medicament. temp. 10.3.4 [12, 212.5-9 K]). σχιστοῦ could be either an adjective (‘ground, pulverized’) related to ἀρ[σ]ενικοῦ, or a noun (‘schist’), see Migliardi Zingale 1974, 38.

  • 9.

    [τ]εττερεβ̣[ινθίνης]: extremely rare form, which is attested only in Gloss. (see Migliardi Zingale 1974, 308).

  • 12.

    [κινν]α̣βά̣ρεω̣[ς]: cinnabar was usually employed as a collyrium (see e.g. Thphr. Lap. 58; Dsc. 5.94 W).

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