List of boat's furniture
A list of boat's furniture.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1380
Inventory of a boat's equipment TM 1380Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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A fragmentary inventory listing the equipment of a boat, including rudder, mast, yards, old sails, tow ropes, poles of Greek wood, oars and a stern partition. It comes from the Zenon archive at Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[…] the equipment item by item.
[…] a rudder, composite (?),
[…] a mast, composite (?), 2 yards
[…] composite (?), old sails
[…], ropes for the mast complete, of tow,
[…] 2 poles, composite (?), of
Greek wood, 6 oars, (of which)
[…] of […] wood 2,
[…] 4 of willow,
[…], through the ship
[…] having in the stern
[…] a partition.
The term symbletos, here rendered 'composite', probably describes parts made of joined pieces, but its exact sense is uncertain. The left side of each line is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as List of boat’s furniture). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.cair.zen.4.59755
[…]τὸ καθʼ ἓν τῶν σκευῶν. […]πηδάλιον συμβλητόν, […]ἱστὸς συμβλητός, κεραῖαι β […]συμβληταί, ἱστία παλαιὰ […]ελους, σχοινία τὰ καθʼ ἱστὸν ἐντελῆ στύππινα, […]κοντοὶ β συμβλητοὶ ξύλων Ἑλληνικῶν, κῶπαι ϛ ὧν […]κῶν ξύλων β, […] ἰτέιναι τέσσαρες , […]…ωμενον, διὰ νηὸς […]…[…] ἔχουσα …