Resumen de Mud from Memphis: P.Berl.Bibl. 6 and Fertiliser Production in Roman Egypt
The article presents a new edition of P.Berl.Bibl. 6 (= SB I 423), which appears to be an acknowledgement of receipt of a leased ammokopregonship. It is argued that the ship was used for collecting silt fertiliser in the marshy parts of the Nile near Memphis, and that the name of the ship, Myrismos, is a Greek epithet of the Memphite god of the water lily and of fragrance, Nefertem
