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Title TM 69028
Content medical catechism on ophtalmology
Reference Edition 17911. Isabella ANDORLINI, Testi medici su papiro. Atti del Seminario di studio (Firenze, 3-4 giugno 2002). (Progetto Corpus dei Papiri Greci di Medicina.), (Firenze 2004). p. 63-77
Fragments Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale P. gr. 849
Support Material papyrus
Date 300 - 399
More from the period between 300 CE and 399 CE
Origin Found: Arsinoites (Egypt); written: Egypt
More from Found: Arsinoites (Egypt); written: Egypt
Form and Layout papyrus roll (pagination: 0)
Genre prose; medicine; catechism
Culture literature; science
Print Illustrations ed. princ., Tav. 2
Availability
Origin
More from Found: Arsinoites (Egypt); written: Egypt

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Introduction

Fragment of a medical catechism possibly from a manual of ophthalmology (for erotapokrisis see Medicalia Online s.v. Catechism). The left-hand side is missing. The preserved section dealing with glaucoma (ll. 1-2) and staphyloma (ll. 3-17) is partly paralleled by P.Ross.Georg. 1.20 (LDAB 4778; MP3 2343), P.Aberd. 11 (LDAB 4539; MP3 2342) and by medical authors (cf. Marganne 1978, 313-20; Marganne 1994, 97-132). On staphyloma see now Medicalia Online s.v. Questions and responses are articulated with blank spaces at right (ll. 3, 5-6, 14) and marked by poss. indented headings (ll. 3, 6, 11-2, 15). Papyrus scrap (11.6x4.5 cm) written on the verso in a sloping hand. On the recto traces of a document dating to III-IV AD.

(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Isabella Bonati 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 edition (C. Magdelaine, "Testi Medici su Papiro", ed. I. Andorlini, pp. 64-77).)

[ -ca.?- ]  ̣ τὸ γλαύκ̣ω-
[μα -ca.?- ] vac. ?
[τί ἐστι τὸ σταφύ]λ̣ωμα; vac. ?
[ἔπαρμα κατὰ τὸν τ]ῆ̣ς̣ κόρης τόπο(ν)
5[ἐμφερῶς ῥαγὶ σταφ]υλῆς. vac. ?
[πῶς γείνεται(*) τ]ὸ̣ σταφύλωμα;
[ἤτοι δι᾿ ἀτονίαν τοῦ κ]ε̣ρατοειδοῦς
[χιτῶνος κατὰ ῥῆξιν] γείνεται(*) ἤτοι
[διὰ ἔκλυσιν καὶ ῥευμ]ατισμὸν πο-
10[λυχρόνιον. vac. ?] vac. ?
[τίνι διαφέρουσι τὰ στα]φ̣υλώ-
[ματα; vac. ?] vac. ?
[μεγέθει ἢ χρώματι τὰ] σ̣ταφυλ[ώ-]
[ματα αὑτῶν διαφέρο]υ̣σι. vac. ?
15 [χειρουργία vac. ?] vac. ?
[ -ca.?- ]ι̣ντον ̣[ -ca.?- ](*)
[ -ca.?- ]λ̣αμβαν[ -ca.?- ](*)
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Apparatus


^ 6. l. γίνεται
^ 8. l. γίνεται
^ 16. or [ -ca.?- καθίζε]ι̣ν τὸν κ̣[άμνοντα -ca.?- ] (?)
^ 17. or [ -ca.?- βελόνας δύο] λ̣αμβάν[ειν -ca.?- ] (?)

Notes

  • 1-2.

    glaucoma before staphyloma also in P.Ross.Georg. 1.20; Gal. DM 344-5 (19.435.13-6 K) and Ps.-Sor. Quaest.med. 362-3 (MS Lincol. 220, f. 41r). On glaucoma, cf. Marganne 1979, 199-214.

  • 3.

    For the question, cf. P.Ross.Georg. 1.20.68-9. τόπο(ν) is abbreviated with an overline.

  • 4-5.

    Cf. P.Ross.Georg. 1.20.70-2; Ps.-Gal. DM 345 and 349 (19.435.15-6 and 439.13-4 K). For the comparison with grape (e.g. Aët. 7.36 [CMG 8.2, 286.18-20 Oliv.]), cf. Skoda 1988, 286 s.v. πτερύγιον. The final alpha of σταφύλωμα seem to extend to the right in a sort of short line filler.

  • 6.

    Etiological question as in P.Ross.Georg. 1.20.73-4.

  • 7-10.

    Text restored combining P.Ross.Georg. 1.20.75-9 and Paul.Aeg. 6.19 (CMG 9.2, 59.8-10 Heib.).

  • 11-2.

    Question introducing different staphylomata according to size and colour (cf. P.Ross.Georg. 1.20.80-1).

  • 15.

    For the surgery of staphyloma, cf. e.g. Aët. 7.37 (CMG 8.2, 288.7-289.20 Oliv.); Paul.Aeg. 6.19 (CMG 9.2, 59.12-20 Heib.); Cels. 7.7.11 (CML 1.318.26-319.2 Marx).

  • 16-7.

    Poss. description of the surgical procedures modeled upon Aët. 7.37 (CMG 8.2, 288.9-11 Oliv.) .

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