Order from Sosibios to Andouros
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70786
Order from Sosibios to Andouros to let pass Italian wine TM 70786Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
The same ancient text or artifact as recorded by 2 records across 2 independent projects, recognised as one entity by its TM-Text identifier. View on Trismegistos →
A short ostracon order, apparently a customs pass, in which Sosibios instructs Andouros to let a man named Herak( ), son of Haryothes, pass with 16 jars of Italian wine. It was found in the Roman dump at Berenike on the Red Sea and probably dates to about AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
[Sosibios to Andouros, greetings.] Let pass for Herak( ), son of Haryothes,
16 Italian (jars) of wine.
The sender and addressee names are restored from parallel passes in the same archive. "Italian" refers to a type of wine jar or measure (Italian amphorae).
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.1.9
Σωσίβιος Ἀνδουρωι χαίρειν· πάρες Ἡρακλ Ἁρυώθου οἴνου ἰταλικὰ ιϛ.