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Introduction
List of ingredients. The papyrus scrap (12 x 7,8 cm) preserves the upper margin to 0,8 cm and the left-hand margin to 1,3 cm, but is broken off to the right and at the foot. The editor princeps described the papyrus as a list of ingredients for the preparation of an unguent; the second editor regards the text as an unprefaced table of medicinal substances with amounts, maybe a itemized list of ingredients of a therapeutic prescription. The presence of substances having emollient and warming properties next to astringent and cleansing items may suggests the recipe could produce a cicatrizing plaster for spreading ulcers. The text is written in unattractive, yet not unpractised, separated letters with occasional lapses into more cursive script, datable to the late third century BC according to Luiselli (contra Wagner, second century BC).
(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Francesca Bertonazzi 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. = G. Wagner, P.Eleph.Wagner 4; ed.alt. = R. Luiselli, GMP II 11).)
πίσσης ὑγρᾶς <τε>ταρτημό̣ρ̣[ι]ο̣[ν -ca.?- ](*)
μυελοῦ(*) μοσχείου δραχμ̣[ -ca.?- ](*)
λεπίδα(*) χαλκοῦ(*) δραχμὰς δύ[ο]
5μάννης(*) δραχμὰς δύο
ῥητίνης τ̣ερμινθ[ί]νης(*) δρα̣[χμ -ca.?- ](*)
ἐλαίου τ̣οῦ̣ [ ̣ ̣] α̣σ[ ̣]ο̣υ̣ [ἐ]σθ̣ι̣ομ[ένου -ca.?- ](*)
κ̣ηκ̣[ῖ]δ̣[ος δραχμὰ]ς τ[ -ca.?- ](*)
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Apparatus
^ r.1. corr. ex ὁλκῆν ( ̣ [ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ prev. ed.)
^ r.2. [τ]ε̣ταρτημο̣[ρίου δραχμὰς δύο] prev. ed.
^ r.3. μυελ[οῦ] prev. ed.
^ r.3. δραχμ̣[ὰς δύο] prev. ed.
^ r.4. l. λεπίδος, λεπιδ[ίου] prev. ed.
^ r.4. [χ]α̣λκοῦ prev. ed.
^ r.5. μάνν[ας] prev. ed.
^ r.6. ῥετίνη[ς] (l. ῥητίνη[ς]) Ἑρμονθ[ι]τ̣ης prev. ed.
^ r.6. δρα̣[χμὰς δύο] prev. ed.
^ r.7. or [πρ]α̣σ[ί]ο̣υ̣, or [πρ]ά̣σο̣υ̣, [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣] ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ r.8. [ ̣ ̣]ης [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
Notes
- 5.
δ of δραχμάς corrected from upright