The Red Sea Papyri III. The accounting documents of the “great repository” (GU papyrus). MIFAO 156.
Ifao| N° d'inventaire | 31851 |
| Format | 24.5 x 33 |
| Détails | 232 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782724710571 |
This third volume of the "Red Sea Papyri," devoted to the batch of papyri discovered in 2013 in the "large deposit" left in front of galleries G1 and G2 of the Wadi el-Jarf site, focuses on the publication of the best-preserved accounting documents that were part of this set. Fourteen of the documents presented here (from papyrus G to papyrus T) thus correspond, in different ways, to the recording of foodstuffs, equipment, and tools made available to the teams working in this intermittent port on the Red Sea at the end of the reign of Cheops. These accounting grids record the delivery of bread, cereals, dried fish, different kinds of beer and various foodstuffs, which clearly show that this highly specialized staff, employed full-time by the monarchy for the realization of monumental projects such as the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, was very well treated by the administration, and sometimes even had access to relatively rare products at this time such as honey, dates and ointments. A final document (Papyrus U) – unfortunately very fragmentary – is probably one of the oldest known geographical “guides”.
This third volume of the "Red Sea Papyri," devoted to the batch of papyri discovered in 2013 in the "large deposit" left in front of galleries G1 and G2 of the Wadi el-Jarf site, focuses on the publication of the best-preserved accounting documents that were part of this set. Fourteen of the documents presented here (from papyrus G to papyrus T) thus correspond, in different ways, to the recording of foodstuffs, equipment, and tools made available to the teams working in this intermittent port on the Red Sea at the end of the reign of Cheops. These accounting grids record the delivery of bread, cereals, dried fish, different kinds of beer and various foodstuffs, which clearly show that this highly specialized staff, employed full-time by the monarchy for the realization of monumental projects such as the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, was very well treated by the administration, and sometimes even had access to relatively rare products at this time such as honey, dates and ointments. A final document (Papyrus U) – unfortunately very fragmentary – is probably one of the oldest known geographical “guides”.