papyrus de la mer Rouge I
Le journal de Merer
By (author) Pierre Tallet
Hardback (Published)
(December 2017)
ISBN: 9782724707069
Price: $48.00
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English summary: The Wadi el-Jarf site, excavated since 2011, is an harbour on the Red Sea shore that was used at the beginning of the IVth dynasty to reach the copper and turquoise mines of the south-western part of Sinai Peninsula. During the 2013 archaeological campaign, hundreds of fragments of papyrus from the end of Khufu’s reign were collected at the entrance of one of the storage galleries that are one of the most remarkable features of the site. This is at the moment the oldest papyrus archive ever found in Egypt. It is related to a team of sailors and mainly includes two categories of documents: accounts of commodities delivered to the workers, and logbooks registering their daily activities over several months. Those last documents record missions led under the direction of the inspector Merer that are related to the transport of limestone blocks from the quarries of Tura to the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, then under construction on the opposite bank of the Nile. This book is the publication of the two best preserved logs of this archive. French description: Le site du Ouadi el-Jarf, fouille depuis 2011, est un port sur la mer Rouge qui a ete utilise au debut de la IVe dynastie pour se rendre par voie maritime aux mines de turquoises et de cuivre du sud-ouest de la peninsule du Sinai. Lors de la campagne de 2013, un important lot de papyrus date de la fin du regne de Cheops a ete mis au jour a l’entree de l’une des galeries-magasins qui sont l’un des traits caracteristiques du site. Ces documents sont a ce jour les plus anciens papyrus hieratiques jamais decouverts. Ils constituent les archives d’une equipe de marins et se subdivisent en deux grandes categories?: des comptabilites enregistrant des livraisons de differents produits, et des journaux de bord qui couvrent plusieurs mois d’activite de cette equipe. Ces derniers decrivent des missions effectuees sous la direction de l’inspecteur Merer, et concernent pour l’essentiel le transport par voie fluviale de blocs de calcaire des carrieres de Toura vers le chantier de la grande pyramide de Cheops, alors en construction sur l’autre rive du Nil. Cet ouvrage est la publication des deux journaux de bord les mieux preserves de ce lot.
- By (author) Pierre Tallet
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