Order from Herak- to Drakon
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70850
Order from Herak- to Drakon to release Laodicean wine for outfitting TM 70850Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short ostracon order from a certain Herak… to Drakon instructing him to release goods, apparently Laodicean wine, belonging to a man of Varus' household, for the outfitting of a ship. It comes from the Roman dump at Berenike on the Red Sea and is dated roughly AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
[Herak…] to Drakon: release Pse… […] … of Varus, for fitting out, Laodicean (jars) ….
Such Berenike passes authorize release of goods, here probably Laodicean wine, for exartismos, the provisioning or fitting out of ships. The word 'jars' is implied by the abbreviated adjective.
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.1.73
Ἡρακ Δράκοντι· ἀπόλυσον Ψε… […]…λ… τῶν Οὐάρου εἰςἐξαρτισμὸν λαδικηνὰ ….