Medical treatise. Fragment (8 x 20.5 cm) of a papyrus roll containing on the verso parts of two columns (on the recto, a Latin financial document dating back to the first half of the 1st cent. AD: P.Princ. 3.143 = CPL 196). Upper and lower margins survive to a height of 3.1 cm; the space between the columns averages about 2 cm, but the remains of col. I show that the lines were very uneven in length. The work preserved on the recto is a treatise on tumors, caused by ‘heat’ (inflammation). In view of its simple, ‘basic’ character, any attribution to a special school (Methodists, Empiricists, as [Johnson 1942](http://papyri.info/biblio/4071), 10 suggests) seems a priori pointless. The text was copied in an uncial hand assignable to the middle of the 1st cent. AD.
Medical treatise. Fragment (8 x 20.5 cm) of a papyrus roll containing on the verso parts of two columns (on the recto, a Latin financial document dating back to the first half of the 1st cent. AD: P.Princ. 3.143 = C.Pap.Lat. 196). Upper and lower margins survive to a height of 3.1 cm; the space between the columns averages about 2 cm, but the remains of col. I show that the lines were very uneven in length. The work preserved on the recto is a treatise on tumors, caused by ‘heat’ (inflammation). In view of its simple, ‘basic’ character, any attribution to a special school (Methodists, Empiricists, as [Johnson 1942](http://papyri.info/biblio/4071), 10 suggests) seems a priori pointless. The text was copied in an uncial hand assignable to the middle of the 1st cent. AD.