Papyrus Tebtunis 679 (100 – 200 CE)
Fragment of an illustrated treatise on medicinal properties of plants.
Pack #2094.
PTK
Papyrus Turner. 14 (150 – 200 CE)
Fragment of a medical catechism, with questions on olive oil, and the best moment for a
katabrokhe ̄ (soaking) in cases involving paroxysms (“at the beginning”). The terminology, of
constriction, relaxation, and dispersion, seems Methodist.
L.C. and H.C. Youtie, in P.Turner.
PTK
Papyrus Vindob. 19996 (50 – 100 CE)
This papyrus from the Fayum, Egypt, contains several columns of stereometrical calculations,
computing the volumes of parallelepipeds, pyramids (triangular and quadrangular), cylin-
ders, and truncated cones. The procedures are similar to those of H A,
Metr.
H. Gerstinger and K. Vogel, “Eine stereometrische Aufgabensammlung in Papyrus Graecus Vindobo-
nensis 19996,” Griechische Literarische Papyri v. 1, ed. H. Gerstinger et al. (1932) 11–76.
PTK
Paradoxographus Florentinus (100 – 200 CE)
Assembled 43 extracts concentrating on the theme of water. Following S
B’s attribution of the collection to S, the anonymous author is also known
as pseudo-So ̄tio ̄n. The work divides into two sections, one on springs, the other on lakes and
rivers. The stories are not arranged in a specific geographical order. Many different sources
were used, most of them indirectly.
Ed.: PGR 315 – 329.
RE 18.3 (1949) 1137–1166 (§31, 1161–62), K. Ziegler; Giannini (1964) 135–136.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
Paradoxographus Palatinus (200 – 300 CE?)
Anonymous author, who passed on a collection of 21 mirabilia, dubbed Palatinus Paradox-
ographus by Öhler. The topics in this compilation range from animals, over water and
stones, to medicinal plants. Numerous authors, many not cited first-hand, provided the
stories, among whom A (10), K (15), Theopompos (19), T
(13), A P. (20), A (7), A E (11),
A P. (12), C (21), and finally Athe ̄naios (18), providing the terminus
post quem.
Ed.: PGR 354 – 361.
RE 18.3 (1949) 1137–1166 (§33, 1163–64), K. Ziegler; Giannini (1964) 138.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
PAPYRUS TEBTUNIS 679