Order from Sosibios to Andouros
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70784
Order from Sosibios to Andouros to let pass Italian wine TM 70784Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short order on an ostracon from Sosibios to Andouros, instructing him to let Tithoes son of Hatres pass with a quantity of Italian wine. It comes from the Roman dump at Berenike on the Red Sea and dates to about AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
Sosibios to Andouros, greetings. Let pass for Tithoes son of Hatres […] Italian (jars?) of wine […]
Such 'let pass' orders served as customs or transit passes for goods moving through the Red Sea port. The quantity of wine is lost or illegible.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order from Sosibios to Andouros). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
o.berenike.1.7
Σωσίβιος Ἀνδουρωι χαίρειν· πάρες Τιθοῆτι Ἁτρήους οἴνουἰταλικὰ ….