Order from Herak- to Drakon
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70847
Order to release four jars of Laodicean wine TM 70847Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short order on an ostracon from a man named Herak[...] to Drakon instructing the release of four jars of Laodicean wine to Pakoibis son of Maros, belonging to the outfitting of Varus. It is one of the customs passes found in the Roman dump at Berenike, on the Red Sea, probably dating to the mid-1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Herak[...] to Drak[on], Peisipmoueis
[...]: release to Pakoibis son of Maros, of the outfitting (?) of Varus, four Laodicean (jars), total 4.
The word exartismos refers to the equipping or provisioning of a ship or expedition, here belonging to Varus. Laodicean jars held wine imported from Laodicea in Syria. The second word of line 2 is abbreviated and left untranslated.
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 Herak- to Drakon). 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.1.70
Ἡρακ Δράκ Πεισιπμούεις κουδ· ἀπόλυσον Πακοίβι Μάρου ἐξαρτισμοῦ Οὐάρου λαδικηνὰ τέσσαρα, γίνεται δ.