Order from Rhobaos to the Customs Officials
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70816
Customs pass from Rhobaos for Italian and Laodicean wine TM 70816Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A customs pass from Rhobaos to the officials at the gate, authorizing Herakleios to take through 20 jars of Italian wine with hollow stoppers and 28 Laodicean jars for outfitting a ship. It was found in the Roman dump at Berenike on the Red Sea coast and dates to about AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
Rhobaos to those at the gate, greetings. Let pass for Herakleios, for the fitting out (of a ship), Italian wine, 20 hollow-stoppered jars, and 28 Laodicean (jars).
Exartismos refers to the provisioning or fitting out of a ship, here probably for a voyage from the Red Sea port. Koilopomata are jars with a particular hollow type of stopper, and 'Laodicean' refers to wine jars from Laodicea in Syria.
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 Rhobaos to the Customs Officials). 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.1.39
Ῥοβαος τοῖς ἐπὶ τῇ πύλῃ χαίρειν· πάρετε Ἡρακλήῳ εἰς ἐξαρτισμὸν οἴνου Ἰταλικοῦ κοιλοπόματα κ καὶ λαδικηνὰ κη.