The Red Sea Papyri I. Merer's Journal (JARF papyri A and B). MIFAO 136.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 20584 |
| Format | 24 x 32 |
| Détails | 192 p., hardcover. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724707069 |
The site of Wadi el-Jarf, excavated since 2011, is a port on the Red Sea that was used at the beginning of the 4th Dynasty to travel by sea to the turquoise and copper mines in the southwest of the Sinai Peninsula. During the 2013 campaign, a large batch of papyri dating from the end of the reign of Khufu was unearthed at the entrance to one of the storerooms that are one of the characteristic features of the site. These documents are to date the oldest hieratic papyri ever discovered. They constitute the archives of a team of sailors and are subdivided into two main categories: accounts recording deliveries of various products, and logbooks covering several months of activity by this team. These describe missions carried out under the direction of Inspector Merer, and mainly concern the transport by river of limestone blocks from the quarries of Toura to the site of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, then under construction on the other bank of the Nile. This work is the publication of the two best-preserved logbooks of this lot.
The site of Wadi el-Jarf, excavated since 2011, is a port on the Red Sea that was used at the beginning of the 4th Dynasty to travel by sea to the turquoise and copper mines in the southwest of the Sinai Peninsula. During the 2013 campaign, a large batch of papyri dating from the end of the reign of Khufu was unearthed at the entrance to one of the storerooms that are one of the characteristic features of the site. These documents are to date the oldest hieratic papyri ever discovered. They constitute the archives of a team of sailors and are subdivided into two main categories: accounts recording deliveries of various products, and logbooks covering several months of activity by this team. These describe missions carried out under the direction of Inspector Merer, and mainly concern the transport by river of limestone blocks from the quarries of Toura to the site of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, then under construction on the other bank of the Nile. This work is the publication of the two best-preserved logbooks of this lot.