M.-H. Marganne, “Un témoignage antérieur à Celse sur l’opération du coloboma,” CE 66 (1991)
226 – 236.
PTK
Papyrus Cairo Crawford 1 (200 – 300 CE)
Fragment on eye-surgery to cure rheumatismos, advocating procedures recorded by P
A 6.6 (CMG 9.2, p. 49) or S (ibid. 6.7, p. 50). The author claims to follow
P and “those around” H, H, M, and S,
so s/he must have been writing after ca 10 CE. Marganne (1981) 140–143 suggests the
author was H.
Marganne (1994) 146–172.
PTK
Papyrus Fayumensis (Apoplexy) (200 – 100 BCE)
Proble ̄mata work, whose preserved fragment concerns apoplexy.
Pack #2370.
PTK
Papyrus Florentinus (before 400 CE)
Fragment of a recipe for dyeing the skins of living animals; the papyrus offers analogies to
P. H. and P. L. V.
Ed.: C. Gallavotti, “Tre Papiri Fiorentini,” RFIC 67, ns 17 (1939) 252–260; Pack #2000; Halleux
(1981) 160–163.
Cristina Viano
Papyrus Geneva inv. 259 (100 – 200 CE?)
This papyrus contains three problems of increasing complexity, each seeking to solve an
integer right triangle (of sides 3, 4, 5) with two givens: (a) the hypotenuse plus one side, (b)
the sum of the hypotenuse and one side plus the other side, and (c) the hypotenuse plus the
sum of the two sides. The method is algebraic, making use of the “Pythagorean” formula.
J. Rudhardt, “Trois problèmes de géometrie, conservés par un papyrus genevois,” MusHelv 35 (1978)
233 – 240, pl. 7.
PTK
Papyrus Hibeh 1.27 (ca 320 – ca 280 BCE)
This papyrus from the ruins of El-Hibeh was wrapped about the same mummies as the
drafts of two letters (P.Hibeh 1.34, 73) written in the early reign of Ptolemy III, probably
before 240 BCE. Its purpose was to provide a calendar of the major festivals or days of
obligation in the Egyptian wandering year of 365 days.
After a brief introduction (first hand) in which the author claims to have learned what
follows from a wise man in the Saïte nome, he presents the calendar (second hand, corrected
by a third or perhaps the first). The typical entry gives a date, the risings and setting of
certain stars and constellations, the changes in the weather and condition of the Nile, the
PAPYRUS HIBEH 1.27