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Authorization of Boat Repair
January 12, 411 BCE.
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"From Arsames to Wahpremabi.
And now, ...[..] %o us, saying: Mithradates the boatholder says thus: Psamsinei(th ... and PN
all (told) two, boatholders of] *the Carians said thus: “The boat which we hold in hereditary
lease ~ the time has come to ma{ke] REPAIRS”:
{.u] “et it be drawn up onto dry land and let (word) be sent to the treasury accountants. Let
them with [the] foreme{n ..} *see “[that boat] *and make a necKONING. And let (word) be
sent to whomever is (there). *Let them give ‘MATERIALS, COATING and other (things) which
La] Sand immediately let RePains be done, and other (things) about which (word) was sent
from me to them.
About this they sent (word) and [said] thus: [..on] “the sand which is in front of the
fortress [...] Mithradates the boatholder showed us the boat (that) we may see (it. The boat)
which is in the hands of Psamsineith and PN, all (told) two boatholders of the Carians,was drawn
up on dry land and we showed (it) to Shamashshillech and his colleagues the foremen (and)
Shamou so[n] of *Kanufi, chief of the carpenters, w#iTENER, and they said thus: “The time
has come to make mePaiins). These are the MATERIALS Which are NECESSARY 'to make
Pnepains:
"new wood of cedar ani
p ten cubits;
sym for] 61a eighty cubits by
three handbreadths;
including sgnn twelve "cubits;
fifteen, each one
twenty cubits;
sl seventy cubits;
nn for the hold. three;
als for the wast/80W one;
"wood forthecuN.WaLe sixty cubits;
mooring post for pAow one, two cubits;
stanchions under the GUN-WALE five;
bronze and iron nails two hundred;
wood of o Lo strong cedar:
PANELLING twenty cubits.
(For) all (of this) he shall bring (as) their replacement oL0 and broken (wood) to the treasury.
Thick linen ¥cLoTH “one hundred
and eighty karsh;
PLATING two hundred and
fifty karsh;101
finn two, each five cubits
(and ) three
handbreadths
by three handbreaths;
bronze nails for the GuN-WALE fone hundred and each three
fifty, handbreadths,
two hundredand “each ten
seventy-five, fingerbreadths,
all (told) nails: four hundred and
twenty-five;
bronze plates twenty cubits;
their nails two hundred;
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“wood of old cedar riwt:
msn one talent, ten mina,
sulphur ten karsh;
and arsenic for COATING one hundred Karsh.
And let them add onto the wood which will be given:
‘onto each sp: three handbreadths ove cuT in the length and two fingerbreadths onto the
‘width and the thickness;
and onto "each iym: three handbreadths oven cu in the length and two fingerbreadths
onto the width;
and onto each Sp and finn: one handbreadth in the length;
and onto *s‘bl, the wood for the GUN-WALE (and the) PANEL SECTIONS, (onto) each (of
these): three handbreadths oveR cur in the length and one fingerbreadth onto the width. The
linen CLOTH, the PLATING, **the arsenic (and) the sulphur are to be given in Persian weight.
Let (word) be sent, saying: “These m ATE RIALS are to be given into the hand of Shamou son
of Kanufi, chief of the carpenters, WHITENER, BEFORE OUR EVES (tomake) REPAIRS
onthat boat and let him make (them) immediately as order has been issued’”
Now, Arsames says thus: “You, do according to this which the accountants say, as order
has been issued”.
Anani the Scribe is Chancellor. Nabuagab wrote (it).
%Wahpremahi ... to be given... according to it... as order has been issued [..] wrote
(DEMOTIC:) Sasobek wrote.
2(DEMOTIC) The boat [..]
From —_Arsames who is in Egypt to Wahpremahi.} (ADDRESS)
*Nabuagab the scribe. On the 13th [of] Tebeth, year 12 of {King] Darifus](SCRIBE & DATE)