Order to Andouros, the quintanensis
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70841
Customs pass to Andouros for four Laodicean jars of wine TM 70841Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short pass on an ostracon addressed to Andouros, a customs official (quintanensis), instructing him to let through four Laodicean jars of wine belonging to Tiberius Claudius Dorion, carried by Haryothes. It comes from the Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea coast and dates to the mid first century AD.
In English machine translation
To Andouros, quintanensis.
Let pass, from (the goods of) Tiberius Claudius Dorion, for Haryothes […] four […],
total: 4 Laodicean (jars) of wine.
The quintanensis was apparently an official collecting or controlling a duty at Berenike, a term with no exact English equivalent. Laodicean refers to wine (or its 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 to Andouros, the quintanensis). 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.1.64
Ἀνδουρωι κουιντανησίῳ· πάρες Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Δωρίωνος Ἁρυώθῃ … … τέσσαρα, γίνεται οἴνου λαδικηνὰ δ.