Order from Sosibios to Andouros
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70793
Customs pass from Sosibios to Andouros for Italian wine TM 70793Roman 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 Achilleus pass with 12 Italian jars of wine. It is a customs pass of the kind used at the Red Sea port of Berenike in the 1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Sosibios to Andouros, greetings. Let pass for Achilleus son of Salid (?) 12 Italian (jars) of wine.
"Italika" refers to Italian wine amphorae, with the unit of measure left unstated. "Salid" may be an abbreviated or foreign patronymic, and its reading is uncertain.
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.1.16
Σωσίβιος Ἀνδουρῳ χαίρειν· πάρες Ἀχιλλεῖ Σαλιδ οἴνου ἰταλικὰ ιβ.