Order from Rhobaos to the Customs Officials
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70825
Customs pass from Rhobaos for a Rhodian jar for ship outfitting TM 70825Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A customs pass from Berenike in which Rhobaos instructs the officials at the gate to let a person (name partly lost) through with one Rhodian jar of wine for the outfitting of a ship. It dates roughly to AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
Rhobaos to those in charge of the gate, greetings.
Let pass […]…touris for outfitting (of a ship): 1 Rhodian (jar of wine).
The term exartismos refers to the provisioning or outfitting of a ship, here with wine. The sender's name and the opening formula are restored from parallel passes in the same archive.
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.1.48
Ῥοβαος τοῖς ἐπὶ τῇ πύλῃ χαίρειν· πάρετε[…]…τουρις εἰς ἐξαρτισμὸν ῥόδιον α.