Griffith, Francis Ll. [Hrsg.]: The Petrie Papyri: hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob ; principally of the Middle Kingdom (Band 1): Text (London, 1897)

MEDICAL PAPYRUS. Pl. VI.

Prescription No. XVI.

(51) Treatment for a woman pained in all her

limbs and the sockets of [her] eyes ............

............her.........is kemt. (52)

Thou shall say as to it: it is kemtu uteri.

Thou shall do for it (thus): grease, heql.........

.....................figs (?), (53) grapes, nekaut,

auh, seeds of sheni..................pound, grind

fine, (54) cook, drink three days.

Prescription No. XVII.

Treatment for a woman [whose] blood ...............

............ womb, (55) with ache of her head,

her [mouth ?] and the end of her hand (wrist
or extremity ?).

[Thou shall say] as to it........................

Thou shalt do for it (thus) : (56) clear the floor for
her, place upon it the lees of sweet beer
[covering it so as ?] not (to allow ?) anything
to fall on to it, (57) thou shalt lay henau
mesesh upon the top side of these lees [and

...........................] upon them, and let her

sit upon it; (58) if nothing enters it, thou

shalt cause to be cooked...........................

let [it] cool, let her drink (it); (59) si autem
incident ei sanguis ejus vel schau (pus?), [it

..........................................]•

I. 55. hnt nt dt-s, cf. perhaps = hnt in
Ptolemaic texts.

II. 56, 57. For " lees " perhaps we ought to
read " a Za/*i-vessel" of sweet beer.

I. 57. mss written mss in Bb. xciv. 13, cf.

i-1

r~—i

vii. 17 = Eb. ss, &c.

I. 59. For sehau, see No. VIII.

Page III.

[PI. VI.]

We find that the regular formulae are
dropped in this page. As has been already
pointed out, the last two pages together con-
tained seventeen prescriptions, all on one plan :
it cannot be an accident that in the third page
there are exactly the same number, of a
different character and probably taken from a
different source.

Prescription No. XVIII.

(1) Another (sic). Adnudandam (?) mulierem a viro

ejus ? ? Half of a badt (?) of milk (?) .........

of a badt (?) .................. (2) contunde (?),

consperge in vulvam ejus.

I. 1. V_

is almost certain, but seems out of

place here.

Prescription No. XIX.

Discernere earn quae jyarfet, in utero mulicris
gravidae (?). Si revenerit mensis mensis,

intrat....................................(3)......of

the evil (?) .........

I, 2.

J bte (?).

Prescription No. XX.

Be (muliere) afflicta remediis adefficiendum conceptum:
after ceases ? the return...........................

(4) pound, grind fine, [strain] in cloth on
gruel (?) auyt (?) ; pour mehuyu ...............

(5) Incense, fresh fat, dates, sweet beer, put
inside a sheda (of wood) in the flame; thou

shalt fumigate ............... (6) as a sweetener

of the mouth.

Z. 4. sMav as in Bbers.

I. 6. ndm r, cf. Eb. xcviii. 18 ; Stern, Gloss.
s.v. | for the use of breath-pastilles.

Prescription No. XXI.

To prevent ..................... Crocodile's dung cut

up (?) on auyt-paste, sprinkled ..................

Prescription No. XXII.

(7) Another medicine: 1 pint (henu) of honey,
consperge in vulvam ejus ; this is to be done
upon sehem (?) of natron.

I. 7. Cf. p o ^ j —a, Eb. lxxxvi. 10.

Prescription No. XXIII.

Another........................... (8) upon auyt-gum,

consperge in vulvam ejus.

Prescription No. XXIV.

Ad morsus (?) uteri dissipendos : Stalks (?) of dates
on ...........................; (9) beat it fine on