| Title | Medical codex |
|---|---|
| Author | unknown |
| Summary | The end of one recipe (l. 4) of unclear use consisting of letharge and wine, the beginning of another against a large number of ailments. |
| Citations | Youtie LC, ZPE 65, 132-135, 1986, Pl VIb Youtie LC, PMich XVII, 758, 10-13, 1996, Pl Ib |
| Inv. Id | P.Mich.inv. 21 |
| Support/Dimensions | 1 papyrus ; 8.7 x 10.5 cm. |
| Condition | Broken all sides with abrasions in the center and at the bottom. In the top left corner a square piece of papyrus has been lost. For a general introduction to this codex, see electronic version of 21. |
| Lines | 1-17 |
| Recto/Verso | Source of description: A; Verso |
| Hands | In l. 4 the writer of the codex placed a large dot after pyxxide to mark the end of the recipe. In addition he placed a broken line beneath l. 4, which he extruded into the margin. Then, after leaving a blank space of one line, he indented the two following lines by 4 letter-spaces to mark them off as a general title for the next section. On the edge of the papyrus opposite l. 7 is a very black curved stroke, not an antisigma, in the second hand. It was undoubtedly intended to draw attention to the first recipe in the new section. For a general introduction to the palaeography of this codex, see electronic version of P. Mich. inv. 21. |
| Origin | unknown |
| Date | IVth century A.D. |
| Note (general) | Location: Ann Arbor |
| Note (general) | Pub. status: Verso |
| Note (related) | - |
| Subjects | -; Literary; medicine; Papyrus |
| Images | Recto medium |
| Images | Recto large |
| License |  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License. |
". . . having mixed together the . . . and the litharge with wine, (store it) in a clean casket.;Medications on lint pledgets: the remedies are effective against ulcers. A moist tented application for spreading-ulcers, herpes, carbuncles, erysipelas, ruptures of tendons, long-standing foul ulcers, bones bare of cartilage, fistulous ulcers, fractures . . ."
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