he mass of papyri discovered in front of Galleries G1 and G2 has provided more than 400 fragments of widely varying size from logbooks, which have allowed us to identify a minimum of seven documents of this type, though more than ten...
morehe mass of papyri discovered in front of Galleries G1 and G2 has provided more than 400 fragments of widely varying size from logbooks, which have allowed us to identify a minimum of seven documents of this type, though more than ten would originally have been part of this lot. They record quite distinct missions that were most probably assigned to the same team of boatmen, "the escorts of < the boat named > 'the Uraeus of Khufu is its prow'", which is indeed well known in Wadi el-Jarf as being active in the final phase of the harbour's working life. Several hundreds of jars inscribed with this title have been discovered throughout the site, especially in the large dumps of pottery in Galleries G22 and G23 that were excavated during the campaigns of 2012, 2017 and 2018. These documents allow us to follow the activities of this group over a period of roughly one calendar year, which, according to the accounting records associated with these logbooks, would essentially correspond to Year 26 of the king's reign (the year after the 13th cattle count). 1 Beyond a simple identification of the missions that were assigned to the team, it is also possible to grasp through these reports an idea of their internal organisation, as well as a reflection of the different royal institutions within which their work was conducted.
