OPES – Oslo Papyri Electronic System

Background and Physical Properties

Material:

Papyrus

Connections:

–

Size:

5.7 x 9.5 cm.

Lines:

15

Publication side:

Recto

Palaeographic description:

One hand. Roman period cursive.

State of preservation:

Medium brown papyrus. Preserved but frayed left margin at 1.3 cm. Broken on three sides. Dispersed holes. Black ink.

Content

Date:

July/August, 272 CE

Origin:

Behnasa (ancient Oxyrhynchus), Egypt

Language:

Greek

Genre:

Documentary

Author:

Unknown

Title / Type of text:

Report of physician / Document

Content:

A physician gives a report of the injuries incurred by a person who has fallen down. Injuries in the area of the head.

Subjects:

Report Physicians Injuries

Named people:

–

Named places:

–

English translation:

(...) at the right side, (...) running from the head to the temple, (the person) having fallen down and (...) having (...) full of (... and?) the front part of the head smeared with blood (and) a big (rupture?) (...) wherefore I submit (this) report. In the 3rd year of the Imperator Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Gothicus Maximus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus. Mesore [x].

Provenance:

Oxyrhynchus, Egypt

Acquisition:

Purchased by Leiv Amundsen from Ali Mahmud, Behnasa.

Acquisition year:

1928

Editions

• Eitrem, S. and Amundsen, L., P.Oslo III, 1936, p. 104 (no. 96)

Further Literature

Catalogues

TM 21538

Discussions

• Nanetti, O., (1941). Ricerche sui medici e sulla medicina nei papiri. Aegyptus, 21, pp. 301-314.
• Kupiszewski, H. (1952). Surveyorship in the Law of Greco-Roman Egypt. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 6, pp. 263-265.
• Modrzejewski, J. and Kupiszewski, H. (1957-58). UPHRETAI: Etude sur les fonctions et le rôle des hyperètes dans 1'administration civile et judiciaire de l'Egypte gréco-romaine. Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 11-12, p. 163, n. 172 (rectify P. Oslo II 96 to III 96).
• Amundsen, D. W. and Ferngren, G.B. (1978). The forensic role of physicians in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Johns Hopkins Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 52, p. 346.
• Manfredi, M. (2004). "Qualche osservazione sui referti medici nei papiri". In Andorlini, I. (ed.) Testi medici su papiro. Atti del Seminario di studio (Firenze, 3–4 giugno 2002), Florence, 153-170 (esp. pp. 163-170 passim).
• Hirt Raj, M. (2006). Médecins et Malades de l'Egypte romaine. Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C (p. 112 and tableau III). Studies in Ancient Medicine, 32.
• Mitthof, F. (2007). "Forensische Medizin im römischen Ägypten". In Froschauer, H and Römer, C. (eds.), Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft. Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten (pp. 55–63 (esp. p. 61 III 9)). Wien.