Introduction
Medical recipes (O.Bodl. II 2187). Ostrakon belonging to the Theban medical dossier ( Préaux 1956 ), this one doubfully dated to the 3rd century AD. It contains some lines of one or more medical prescriptions (two partially legible, six more unintelligible) and a final subscription, over two lines, written by a second hand, which is interpreted by the editor C. Préaux as a final title ("astringent eye-salves made of calamine for catarrh").
(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Nicola Reggiani in the framework of the PRIN 2017 Project "Greek and Latin Literary Papyri from Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Fayum (4th BC – 7th AD): Texts, Contexts, Readers" funded by the Italian Ministry of Research (P.I. Prof. Lucio Del Corso, University of Cassino; Local Research Unit at the University of Parma, coordinator: Prof. Nicola Reggiani).The digital edition is mostly based on the previous editions (ed.pr. = C. Préaux, O.Bodl. II 2187; ed.alt. = C. Préaux, CE 31, 1956, 146).)
DCLP transcription: 64214 [xml]
[ -ca.?- ]ο̣υ̣ (δραχμὰς) β, ὀπίου (δραχμὰς) β
3/8Traces 6 lines
9(hand 2) κολλουρίων πρὸς ῥεῦμα
10στατικῶν̣ κ̣αδμείας̣.
Editorial History; All History; (detailed)
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Notes
- 1.
ὀστᾶ "cores" is the tentative interpretation by Préaux (cf. e.g. Gal. Simpl. XII 342.1-3 ὀστᾶ κεκαυμένα διαφορητικῆς καὶ ξηραντικῆς ἱκανῶς ἐστι δυνάμεως, μάλιστα δέ φασιν ἔνιοι τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων δύνασθαι τοῦτο) but the characters can also belong to a longer word, like e.g. the ingredient να]ρ̣δ̣οστά[χυος "spikenard", which appears in the composition of several different types of eye-salves.