List of boat's furniture
A list of boat's furniture.
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1381
List of boat's tackle TM 1381Kharabet el Gerza (ancient Philadelphia)mid 3rd c. B.C.
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Fragment of an inventory of a boat's rigging and tackle, listing ropes with their lengths in cubits, handles and old straps. The verso, probably a docket, mentions tackle and a man named Petobastis. It belongs to the Zenon archive from Philadelphia in the Fayum, mid 3rd century BC.
In English machine translation
[recto]
[…]
halyard (ankoine), 22 cubits: 1
back-brace (opisthypera), 12 cubits: 1
another, 4 cubits: 1
and handles (?) (antilabeis): 2
old straps: 2
⟦and for this⟧ he has brought back
2, of 30 cubits each
[…]
[verso]
Of tackle […]
Of Petobastis […]
Ankoine and opisthypera are technical rigging terms, a halyard and a rope for the back of the yard, with no precise English equivalents. The Greek hopla on the verso means a ship's gear or tackle here, not weapons.
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.4.59756
[r] [… ? lines lost …] ἀγκοίνη πηχῶν κβ α ὀπισθυπέρα πηχῶν ιβ α ἄλλη πηχῶν δ α καὶ ἀντιλαβεῖς β ἱμάντες παλαιοὶ β ἀνενήνοχεν δὲ β ἀνὰ πήχεις λ [… ? lines lost …] [v] ὅπλων […] Πετοβάστιος[…]