Order from Sosibios to Andouros
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70795
Order from Sosibios to Andouros to let pass Italian wine TM 70795Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short ostracon order from Sosibios to Andouros instructing him to let through 7 jars of Italian wine for Psenonesis son of Pabos. 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 Psenonesis son of Pabos 7 jars of Italian wine.
The verb "let pass" (pares) marks this as a customs or transit pass for goods. The keramion was a standard wine jar used as a unit of measure.
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.1.18
Σωσίβιος Ἀνδουρωι χαίρειν· πάρες Ψενονήσι Παβῶτος οἴνου Ἰταλικ κεράμια ζ.