Greek Medical Papyri II

This publication is a new step of the research project Corpus of Greek Medical Papyri managed by the editor of the series. This volume is a continuation of GMP I that was published in 2001. The new volume contains the results of work completed during the interim by an international team of scholars participating in the ‘Corpus dei Papiri Greci di Medicina’ Project. Most of the papyri were either previously unpublished or descripta, edited here in full for the first time. They range in date from the third century BC to the seventh century AD, and are housed in different papyrus collections. The contents of the new texts are equally diverse: Medical Treatises (1–3), Receptaria and Prescriptions (4–9), a List of Medical Tools (10). Revisions of previously published papyri are also included (11–15)

Insights into the Digital Recovery of the Scythica Vindobonensia

The article provides insights into the digital recovery of the Scythica Vindobonensia, the new fragments on Gothic incursions into Roman provinces in the Balkans in the 3rd century AD, which were discovered some years ago in four palimpsest folios of the Greek manuscript Hist. gr. 73 of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. The fragments come most probably from the lost work Scythica by the 3rd-century historian Dexippus of Athens. In order to render the palimpsested writing of the 11th-century copy of the ancient text visible, the involved scholars invited several technical and scientific teams who provide state-of-the-art expertise in the field of digital recovery of erased writings to apply non-invasive imaging and advanced image processing on the Vienna palimpsest