Report of a public physician

• 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

• 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.

• Subjects

  Physicians

  Greek Language