Order from Sosibios to Andouros
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70798
Pass for Italian and Colophonian wine for Petarpochrates TM 70798Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short ostracon order, apparently from Sosibios to Andouros, instructing him to let pass a consignment belonging to Petarpochrates: 16 Italian and 4 Colophonian jars of wine. It is one of the customs or transit passes found in the Roman dump at Berenike on the Red Sea, dated roughly AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
[Sosibios to Andouros, greetings. Let pass] for Petarpochrates son of Pl… (?)
16 Italian (jars) of wine, 4 Colophonian (jars).
The names of sender and addressee are restored in the lost opening. "Italian" and "Colophonian" refer to types of wine jars, named after the region or style of the wine they held.
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.1.21
Σωσίβιος Ἀνδουρωι χαίρειν· πάρες Πεταρποχράτηι Πλ… οἴνου ἰταλικὰ ιϛ, κολοφώνια δ.