Medical prescription (P.Duk.inv. 770 V)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Medical prescription, [2--]
Subject: Medicine --Egypt --Formulae, receipts, prescriptions --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Lead oxides --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Subliterary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Prescriptions --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, very incomplete ; 6 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 6.0 x 3.1 cm.
	9 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the verso; written along
	the fibers on the recto in a different hand.
	Upper margin of 0.5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 770 V was formerly P.Rob.inv. 33 V.
	Medical prescription from Egypt, written on papyrus.
	Mentions litharge (lead monoxide).  Recto has an
	account of taxes in kind(?) in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 770 R).
	In Greek.
 	Descriptive database available in repository.
	Publication: edited by Isabella Andorlini as no. 12 in Greek Medical Papyi I. Florence 2001.

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