P.Mich.inv. 3789 / Verso

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Inventory Number

P.Mich.inv. 3789

Processing Number

2114

Section/Side

Verso

Image Side

Verso

Background and Physical Properties

Publ./Side

Verso; Recto is unpublished

Material

Pap

Size

5.4 x 10.5 cm

Items

1

Lines

11 lines

Mounted

No

Negative

Yes

Conservation Status

The surface of the papyrus, which is a medium brown and of average coarseness for documents, is well preserved. There is a kollesis of c. 2 cm in breadth.

Palaeographic Description

The lower margin (2.3 cm) is nearly all intact. The writing is fairly bilinear and the lines (height about .25 cm, interlinear .3 cm) regularly spaced. the letters have at times a backward slant and tend to be compressed vertically, but the writer, although experienced, does not hold to this consistency. Beta, mu, and xi have distinctively cursive shapes. Both capital and cursive kappa appear. Tau varies from squarish with a serif at the base (for the latter, cf. some examples of eta and nu) to fast and slanting specimens, and pi shows comparable gradations. Omega lacks the center vertical, and omicron is sometimes of the tiny kind. Epsilon, while not the fully cursive type, is usually made in two movements, and its top often slants prominently above the other letters. It regularly is ligatures to the letter following. The first two movements of alpha, which also is ligatured, may be either straight or rounded, and the peak often has a loop. There is some tendency toward spacing between words, for example in lines 6 and 10, where the speed increases near the ends of recipes as the scribe ligatures whole strings of letters in regular cursive fashion. In general, one is reminded of "chancery" type hands of the period. Faulty orthography occurs in l. 6. Initial trema is written twice, but there are no accents or stops.

Status

published

Library

Ann Arbor

Contents

Date

IIIrd century A.D.

Origin

Oxyrhynchos ? (reported)

Provenance

Oxyrhynchos ? (reported)

Acquisition

purchased by Prof. Boak in 1925 (report submitted by H.I. Bell, dated May 2, 1925); described as coming from Behneseh (Oxyrhynchus)

Language

Greek

Genre

Literary; subliterary; medical

Author

Unknown

Type of Text/Title of Work

Medical recipe

Content

Medical prescriptions. Separation of the individual recipres by spaces about one line in height. The text was probably copied for the particular use of its owner.

Subject Headings

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Egypt.

Bahnas¯a (Egypt)

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Translation

] of terebinth-tree [

]double, aromatic made of iris [

] must of old (?) Italian wine [

] Celtic nard, marjoram [

] double, of the terebinth-tree, the same [

of the sea, aromatic made with the leaf of albiflorum [

]wild rue, crude sulfur [

bark of royal (?) cypress [

] of the terebinth-tree the same, pitch [

straining. apply as poultice

]for the previous condition [

Papyri.info Link

https://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.3881

Information on Publications

Publications

Series and Volume	Editor	Year	Pg/Nr	Photo	SB	Preferred Citation	Corrections
PColl Youtie I	Renner TT	1976	4	plate III	Renner TT, PColl Youtie I, 4, 1976, plate III

Information on Publications--Bibliography

Bibliography

Marganne-Mertens-Pack add. 2407.4; Marganne, inventaire 121

About presciptions see Gazza V, Aegyptus 35, 1955, 86-110; 36, 1956, 73-114; Coles R, ZPE 6, 1970, 256, Lewis N, ASP 1, 4-6; Preaux Cl, CE 61, 1956, 135

Cataloging

Cataloger

NL

Year Begin

200

Year End

299

Technical Details

Collection

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS UM)

Image Size

2435 x 4677

File Size

1 MB

Record

2114

Link to this Item

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