Order from Sosibios to Andouros
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70790
Order from Sosibios to Andouros to pass Italian wine for Leostratos TM 70790Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short ostracon order from Sosibios to Andouros instructing him to let pass a consignment of Italian wine jars for Leostratos son of Paeris. It is one of the customs passes found in the Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea, dating to about AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
Sosibios to Andouros, greetings. Let pass for Leostratos son of Paeris Italian (jars) […].
"Italika" refers to jars of Italian wine. The quantity that followed is lost, and the word itself is partly restored.
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.1.13
Σωσίβιος Ἀνδουρωι χαίρειν· πάρες Λεωστράτῳ Παήριος ἰταλικὰ […] .