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List of materials for fitting out a kybaia ship TM 1699unbekanntMitte III v.Chr.

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A list of materials to be supplied for a kybaia, a type of cargo ship: pitch, wax, red ochre, timber, planks and iron nails. It comes from the Zenon archive milieu of the mid-3rd century BC.

In English machine translation

To give for the kybaia (ship): Of pitch, 2 metretai Of wax, 7 minas Again, of pitch, 5 metretai Of red ochre, 2 minas Timber for a dolon-mast(?) table(?) and for decking the half-decks(?), 1 plank four cubits long, and timbers for legs(?) and of nails four fingers long and three fingers long for the decking, of iron, 5 minas […] 1

A kybaia was a merchant vessel type; terms like trapeza dolonike (probably a mast-step or fitting for the foremast, dolon) and hedolia (stern or half-deck seating) are technical shipbuilding words of uncertain exact meaning. The last line is damaged.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below. It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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p.lond.7.2139

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · Mitte III v.Chr.

δοῦναι εἰς τὴν κυβαίαν· πίσσης μετρητὰς β κηροῦ μνᾶς ζ πάλιν πίσσης μετρητὰς ε μίλτου μνᾶς β ξύλον εἰς τράπεζαν δολωνικὴν καὶ εἰς στρῶσιν ἑδωλίοις σανίδα τετράπηχυν α καὶ εἰς σκέλη ξύλα καὶ ἥλων τετραδακτύλων καὶ τριδακτύλων εἰς στρῶμα σιδήρου μνᾶς ε ελα[…]ε α