Koller Papyrus - Model letter:
The equipment of a Syrian expedition

- Take good heed to make ready the array(?) of horses which is (bound) for Syria, together with their stable-men, and likewise their grooms; their coats .....-ed and filled with provender and straw, rubbed down twice over; their corn-bags(?) filled with kyllestis-bread, a single ass(?) in the charge of (every) two men.

Their chariots are of bry-wood filled with [all kinds of(?)] weapons of warfare; eighty arrows in the quiver, the Hmj.t, the lance(?), the sword, the dagger, the qwt, the skhm, the whip of TAg-wood furnished with lashes, the chariot-club, the staff(?) of watchfulness, the javelin of Kheta, the rein-looser(?), their facings [of] bronze of six-fold alloy, graven with chiselling(?), ........-ed, and .........-ed.

Their cuirasses are placed beside them.

The bows are adjusted(??) to their strings, their wood being tested in drawing, their(?) bindings(?) consisting of clean ......... leather(?).

The pole is of Tag-wood, .........-ed, shaped(?), fitted with leather, finished off(?), oiled and polished(?).

Sources: Alan H. Gardiner Egyptian Hieratic Papyri, Series I: Literary Texts of the New Kingdom, Part I , Leipzig 1911

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