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Introduction
Medical recipes. The sheet (12.5 x 15.9 cm) was folded twice vertically and is broken along these folds. The text is written on the recto into two columns, and the impression arises that the papyrus was cut to its present size after the writing was completed. The margins are narrow all around. The papyrus contains three prescriptions for eye ointments (pilaria) effective against various ailments such as roughened eyelids, inflammations, inflamed tumors or boils, and defects of the cornea (see Aët. 7.103 [CMG 8.2, 360.3ff. Oliv.]; Alex.Trall. 2.23ff. Puschm.; Paul.Aeg. 7.16.11 [CMG 9.2, 35.8-11 Heib.]). In all likelihood these recipes were a copy made by a physician for his own use and convenience from a compilation similar to Aët. VII 103, if not from Aëtius himself. The handwriting is typical of the 5th-6th cent. AD.
ψιμιθίου (δραχμαὶ) κδ
χαλκοῦ (δραχμαὶ) ϛ
λεπὶς(*) χα(λκοῦ) (δραχμὴ) α
5ζμύρ(νης) (δραχμαὶ) δ
ὀπίου (δραχμαὶ) δ
ἀκακίας (δραχμαὶ) β
τρακα(κάνθης)(*) (δραχμαὶ) η
ἀμύλ{λ}ου (δραχμαὶ) κδ
10κόμ<μ>εως (δραχμαὶ) κδ
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ἄλλο πιλάριον
ψιμίθου (δραχμαὶ) μη
καδμ<ε>ίας (δραχμαὶ) η
χαλκοῦ (δραχμαὶ) β
15πιβέ[ρ(εως)](*) (δραχμαὶ) β
ζμύρ(νης) (δραχμαὶ) δ
τρακα(κάνθης)(*) (δραχμαὶ) ιβ
ἀμύλ{λ}ου (δραχμαὶ) ιβ
ἀκακίας (δραχμαὶ) κ
καδμ<ε>ίας (δραχμαὶ) ιϛ
ψιμίθου (δραχμαὶ) μη
χαλκοῦ [(δραχμαὶ)] γ
κρόκου (δραχμὴ) [α (ἥμισυ)]
25ζμύρ(νης) (δραχμαὶ) γ
ὀπίου (δραχμαὶ) κδ
ἀκακίας (δραχμαὶ) κδ
τρακα(κάνθης)(*) (δραχμαὶ) ιβ
ἀμύλ{λ}ου (δραχμαὶ) ιβ
30κόμ<μ>εως (δραχμαὶ) ιβ
Apparatus
Notes
- 2.
The forms ψιμίθιον and ψίμιθος are interchangeable, as shown by the appearance of both at ll. 2, 12, 22.
- 20.
ἄλλο has been omitted in l. 20 before πιλάριον; more usual would have been the omission of πιλάριον.
- 24.
[α (ἥμισυ)] is restored from Aët. 7.103 (CMG 8.2, 360.9, 12 Oliv.). There are no variant readings in the mss. and there is ample space on the papyrus for 2 letters.