Order from Herak- to Drakon
Remains of a customs pass for wine(?) export.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70853
Order to Drakon to release four Laodicean jars from Varus' outfitting TM 70853Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short ostracon order from Herak[…] to Drakon son of Peisipmous instructing him to release four Laodicean jars, probably of wine, from the outfitting of a ship or caravan belonging to Varus. It belongs to the series of customs passes found in the Roman dump at Berenike on the Red Sea, dated about AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
Herak[…] to Drakon son of Peisipmous, [greetings](?). Release from the outfitting (exartismos) of Varus […]onios son of Psenosiris […] four Laodicean (jars).
"Laodicean" refers to wine jars from Laodicea in Syria; the item released is inferred from the description of the text as a customs pass for wine export. The word read here as "greetings" (koud) is obscure and the translation is a guess.
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.1.76
Ἡρακ Δράκοντι Πεισιπμοῦ κουδ· ἀπόλυσον τῶν Οὐάρου ἐξαρτισμοῦ […]ονιος Ψενοσίριος … λαδικηνὰ τέσσαρα .