Order from Rhobaos to the Customs Officials
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70826
Customs pass from Rhobaos for Laodicean wine of Peteminis TM 70826Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A customs pass on a potsherd from Berenike in which Rhobaos instructs the officials at the gate to let Peteminis through with 8 jars of Laodicean wine for outfitting (provisioning). It dates to roughly AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
[Rhobaos to those] at the gate, [greetings. Let pass for] Peteminis for [...] outfitting 8 Laodicean (jars).
"Laodicean" refers to wine jars from Laodicea in Syria; exartismos means fitting out or provisioning, probably of a ship or caravan. The sender's name and much of the formula are restored after parallel passes.
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.1.49
Ῥοβαος τοῖς ἐπὶ τῇ πύλῃ χαίρειν· πάρετεΠετεμίνει εἰς […]ἐξαρτισμὸν λαδικηνὰ η.