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Title Psi. 4 297
Content medical prescription
Principal Edition PSI . 4 297 b
Fragments Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 10650 Vo
Support Material papyrus
Date 400 - 499
More from the period between 400 CE and 499 CE
Origin Found: Hermopolis (U, Egypt); written: Egypt
More from Found: Hermopolis (U, Egypt); written: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus sheet (columns: 0, pagination: 0)
Genre medicine
Culture science
Print Illustrations Liège
Availability
Origin
More from Found: Hermopolis (U, Egypt); written: Egypt

DCLP Transcription [xml]

Introduction

Letter and medical recipes. Fragment (30 x 9 cm) of a papyrus sheet containing on the recto a letter to a physician; on verso, some prescriptions in a second hand (trans fibras) and the name of the addressee, which is written perpendicular to the main body of the text. The handwriting is datable to 5th cent. AD.

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† Ἀφῆκέν̣ με μετὰ τῆς ἐμπλάστρου θλιβόμενον ἡ σὴ παί[δευσις]
καὶ πρὸ πολλῶν ἡμερῶν οὐκ’ ἐπεσκέψατό με. ἐπεὶ οὖν ἐκ τῆς
ἀλουσίας αἰσθάνομαι καὶ δριμὺ ὀ̣[σ]δομένου(*) τοῦ σώματος,
καταξιώσῃ δηλῶσαί μοι πότε ἔστιν προσδοκῆσαι α̣ὐ[τὴν]
5[ἐλευσομ(?)]ένην κατὰ τὴν [ -ca.?- ]
v
[ -ca.?- ]δεκαλε̣  ̣  ̣  ̣
((centered)) ξϛ
τὰ κρίνεα(*) βάλε
εἰς τὸν οἶνον
5κ[ατά]ξηρα κλ[έ-]
πτεις καὶ βάλλεις
καὶ τὸν στύρακα
[χα(?)]λεπὰ διελεῖν
[τοῖ]ς ὄνυξιν βαλ-
10[λει(?)]ς καὶ πά̣λ̣[ιν(?)] ἄξεις
[  ̣  ̣  ̣] ἔ̣ασον ἐν ὴλίῳ
[  ̣  ̣  ̣] καὶ ὑλίσας προσπλε-
[ξον᾽ τ]ὸ(*) ὀποβάλσαμον
[συμβ]άλλω̣ τ̣ὰ̣ καρυοφύλ-
15λα(*)

Apparatus


^ r.3. l. ὀζομένου
^ v.3. BL 11.244 : κρίνα prev. ed.
^ v.12-13. BL 1.395 : προσπλε|[  ̣  ̣  ̣τ]ὸ prev. ed.
^ v.14-15. BL 1.395 : [  ̣  ̣  ̣  ̣] αλλο̣ν  ̣  ̣ καρυοφυλ- prev. ed.

Notes

  • 1.

    Above l.1, scanty traces (fort. βάλσαμον) and some abbreviations for οὐγκίαι.

  • 14-5.

    καρυόφυλλον pro καρυοφύλλα (see BL 3.222 and BL 4.87). BL 11.244 restores καρυοφύλλα.

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