Memorandum [between 261 and 229 BC]
Memorandum perhaps written by Patron with a list of gear to be replaced in a ship
One text, 3 sources · Trismegistos-Text 1813
Memorandum listing ship's gear to be replaced TM 1813Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)261 BCE – 229 BCE
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 3 records across 3 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A memorandum listing items of rigging and tackle to be replaced on a boat, such as yards, sails, stays, braces, a halyard and the lashing of the steering oar. It dates to the mid-3rd century BC and probably comes from Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome (Fayum).
In English machine translation
[recto]
What must be replaced:
2 yards
sails
2 thongs (?)
1 forestay
backstays […]
2 braces
2 after-braces
1 halyard
lashing of the steering oar
[verso]
From […]
Concerning the replacement of gear.
Several Greek rigging terms (himantes, hyperai, opisthoperai, ankoina) have no exact English equivalents and are rendered approximately. The sender's name on the back is damaged; one description suggests Patron.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Replacements of Gear on a Nile Boat). 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.col.4.100
[r] ὅσα δεῖ ἀνταλλάξαι. κεραῖαι β ἱστία ἱμάντες β πρότονον α ἐπίτονοι ὑπέραι β ὀπισθοπέραι β ἄνκοινα α δέσμος πηδαλίου [v] παρὰ …ρ…νος περὶ ἀνταλλάγης σκεύων.