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[… ? lines lost …] ιγ …[…] εἰς τα…[…] ζῦτος …[…] ιδ ναυπηγοῖς δ εἰς […] τιμὴ ξύλων ἀκανθίνων[…] τῶν ἁμαξοπηγῶν[…] ιε σκαφεῦσι β τοῖς […] γιον σκάψασι […] ιϛ τέλος ξύλων δρ[…] ιζ φόρετρα ξύλων […] [… ? lines lost …]
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 2388
Fragment of a daily account of expenses for wood, shipbuilders and diggers TM 2388unbekanntIII - II v.Chr.
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A fragment of a Ptolemaic account listing daily expenses, entered by day numbers 13 to 17, for beer, shipbuilders, acacia wood, wagon-builders, diggers, a tax on wood and the transport of wood. It dates to the 3rd or 2nd century BC.
In English machine translation
[…]
13 […] for the […]
beer […]
14 to 4 shipbuilders for […]
price of acacia wood […]
of the wagon-builders […]
15 to 2 diggers who […]
[…] having dug […]
16 tax on wood […]
17 transport charges for wood […]
[…]
The numbers 13 to 17 at the start of entries appear to be days of the month. Acacia wood was commonly used in Egypt for boat-building.
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.