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Introduction
Medical treatise in catechistic format. The papyrus scrap (7,6 x 15,7 cm) is written on the recto of a roll along the fibres; only the lower margin (4,1 cm wide) is preserved. The intercolumnium is 2 cm wide and divides two columns of text of 17 and 22 lines respectively, the second of which is well preserved. In the latter, a forked paragraphos or diple obelismene (between ll. 7-8) marks the beginning of a new section, stressed also by a title in eisthesis, with the initial and final letters overlined and underlined (ll. 8-9). Traces in the first column of similar overlines and underlines allows us to consider that three more titles appeared at ll. 5, 12, 18. On the verso, scanty traces of a cursive hand survive. The fragment preserves an introductory medical manual in which three topics are discussed following a question-and-answer structure (erotapokrisis). The first one (col. I, ll. 14-7) deals with cancer in the area of the male genitals; the second question (col. II, ll. 1-7) is about blood vessels, possibly in the area of the legs; the third argument (col. II, ll. 8-22) concerns the types and the aetiology of a disease called cryptorchism. The text is copied in a severe sloping style assigned to the 2nd ex. or 3rd in. cent. AD.
(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Francesca Bertonazzi with contributions by Margherita Centenari, Luca Iori, and Angelica Brunazzi, 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 editions (ed.pr. = L. De Stefani, PSI III 252; ed.alt. = D. Fausti, Pap.Flor. VII, pp. 61-5; ed.ter. A.D. Mavroudis, Critical Notes on a Medical Papyrus, Annual of the Fac. of Medicine of Thessaloniki 16 (1986), pp. 187-209; corr. A.E. Hanson, Text and Context in Papyrus Catechisms on Afflictions of the Head, in Trasmissione e ecdotica dei testi medici greci, eds. A. Garzya and J. Jouanna, Napoli 2003, 199-217; corr. D. Leith - A. Maravela, GMP II 14)
1[ -ca.?- ]ο̣ν
[ -ca.?- χ]ειρουρ-
[γ -ca.?- τ]ο̣ῦ χι-
[τῶνος](*) vac. ?(*)
5[ ((eisthesis)) -ca.?- ]ρ
[ ((eisthesis)) -ca.?- ] vac. ?
[ -ca.?- ]και
[ -ca.?- ]κ̣ατα
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ των
10[ -ca.?- ]λ̣ε
[ -ca.?- ]ν
(*) [ ((eisthesis)) -ca.?- ]πι
[ ((eisthesis)) -ca.?- ] vac. ?
[ -ca.?- ]ου
15[ -ca.?- ]μεν
[ -ca.?- ]δεεις
[ -ca.?- ](*) vac. ?(*)
[ ((eisthesis)) -ca.?- -ca.?- ]κηλη
[ -ca.?- ]ατα
20[ -ca.?- οσ]χεον(*)
[ -ca.?- ]σω
1αυτο ἀποσφι̣γ̣[ -ca.?- ]
καταλιπόντες̣ [ -ca.?- ]
μον̣ τρεφόμ[ενον ὑ-]
πὸ τῶν μηκ ̣ ̣ [ -ca.?- ]
5νων ἀγγείω[ν -ca.?- ]
τῆς ὀπισθίου ̣ [ -ca.?- ]-
σεως(*)
——
(*) ((eisthesis)) πόσαι δ[ι]αφ[οραὶ κρυ-]
((eisthesis)) πτόρχων;
10δύο ἡ γὰρ ἐκ φύσ̣[εως](*) [γί-]
νεται(*) ἡ ἐξ ἐπιγ̣[ενήμα-]
τος(*) ὥσπερ ἐπ[ὶ] τ[ῶν ὑπ-]
εσκελισμένω̣ν̣(*) [παιδι-]
ων(*) καὶ κατὰ τῆς [ -4-5- ]-
15μου(*) λαγόνος β[εβλαμ-]
μενων(*) κ̣ρύπτο̣[νται]
δὲ οἱ δίδυμοι ποτ̣[ὲ μὲν]
κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴ[ν τοῦ]
ὀσχέου ποτὲ δὲ κα[τὰ]
20τὸ ἐπιγάστριον ἐ[νίοτε]
δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὴν̣ τ̣[οῦ]
β̣ο̣υβῶν[ος] ἀ̣ρ̣τη̣ρ̣ί̣[αν -ca.?- ]
Apparatus
^ i.3-4. [ -ca.?- ]ο̣υχι | [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ i.4. from photo (via PN) : vac. 1 line prev. ed.
^ i.12. from photo (via PN) : vac. 1 line prev. ed.
^ i.12-17. or [τί ἐστιν ἐντεροε]πι|[πλοκήλη;] vac. ? | [κατολίσθησις ἐντέρ]ου | [καὶ ἐπίπλου πρῶτον] μὲν | [εἰς χιτῶνα ὕστερον] δὲ εἰς | [τὸν ὄσχεον] (?)
^ i.17. vac. 2 lines prev. ed.
^ i.18-20. [ἐντερο]κήλη (or [κιρσο]κήλη or [πνευματο]κήλη or [σαρκο]κήλη or [στεατο]κήλη or [ὑγρο]κήλη) ed.pr. or [τί ἐστιν ἐντερο]κήλη; | [τοῦ ἐντέρου κ]ατὰ|[βασις εἰς τὸν ὄσ]χεον
^ ii.6-7. or [προσφύ]|σεως
^ ii.8. vac. 1 line prev. ed.
^ ii.10. φύ[σεως] prev. ed.
^ ii.10-11. [γίγ]|νεται prev. ed.
^ ii.11-12. after Hanson 2003, 200 n. 5, except for geminated ny : ἐ̣π̣ιπ[τώμα]|τος prev. ed.
^ ii.12-13. [δι]|εσκελισμένω̣ν̣ prev. ed.
^ ii.13-14. after Mavroudis 1986 : ζωί|ων prev. ed.
^ ii.14-15. or [εὐνύ]|μου, τὴν̣ [ -ca.?- ] (or [ἴξιν]) | τ̣ο̣ῦ prev. ed.
^ ii.15-16. after PSI III 252 : β[ -ca.?- ]|μένων prev. ed.
Notes
- I.2.
A suitable supplement could be χειρουργία or a form of the verb χειρουργέω.
- I.3-4.
From χι[τῶνος] it seems likely that the passage describes a surgery in an area of the body where a "tunic" is to be found, which - in the light of the rest of the text - is presumably that of the scrotum: see Paul.Aeg. 6.62-6 [CMG 9.2,102-11 Heib.].
- II.1.
Suitable integrations are ἀπόσφιγξις ('squeezing tight') or a form of the verb ἀποσφίγγω ('to squeeze tight, to compress').
- II.7.
τῆς ὀπισθίου [προσφύ]σεως: see Paul.Aeg. 6.61 (CMG 9.2, 101.22-3 Heib.) and Diog.Apoll. 64B6 DK.
- II.8-9.
κρύπτορχος ('with undescendend testicles') is an hapax.
- II.11.
The term ἐπίπτωμα ('accident') is an hapax; it is a synonim of ἐπίπτωσις ('accident, falling upon or over').
- II.12-13.
[ὑπ]εσκελισμένω̣ν̣: see Miracles of St. Artemios 156,25 Crisafulli-Nesbitt.
- II.13-14.
[παιδι]ων: see Sor. Gyn. 2.40.5 (CMG 4, 83.20-3 Ilb.) and Miracles of St. Artemios 156,25 Crisafulli-Nesbitt.
- II.14-15.
κατὰ τὴν̣ [ἴξιν] see Hp. Epid. 4.35 (5, 178.15 L), Hp. Art. 33 [4.150 L.] e Aret. SA 2.2; κατὰ τῆς [εὐνύ]μου: see Ruf. Anat. 45 [180,9-10 D.-R.]. The new reading has the advantage to remove the Hippocratic term ἴξις, which is not expected in an introductory manual of this sort)