Report of a public physician

This material is held atEdinburgh University Library Heritage Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 237 P.Oxy.51
  • Dates of Creation
    • 173 AD
  • Language of Material
    • Greek
  • Physical Description
    • 1 fragment
      14 cm x 7.2 cm
  • Digital Materials

    • Report of a public physician - recto

  • Digital Content

Scope and Content

A report addressed to the strategus of the nome by a public physician, stating that, in accordance with the instructions of the strategus to examine into the cause of death which had taken place and present a report, he had visited the house and seen the body.

The papyrus is written in a very cursive sloping hand.

Bibliography

Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. I. Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898, pp. 108-109.