Memorandum for the account of Gaius Iulius Epaphroditos
Remains of a customs document for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70861
Memorandum of Italian wine charged to the account of Gaius Iulius Epaphroditos TM 70861Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short ostracon memorandum from Berenike on the Red Sea recording that Herakles son of Hermias supplied four vessels of Italian wine, charged to the account of Gaius Iulius Epaphroditos, for the fitting out of a ship. It dates roughly to AD 33-70.
In English machine translation
Herakles son of Hermias: of Italian wine, 4 koilopomata, to the account of Gaius Iulius Epaphroditos, for outfitting (a ship).
Koilopomata are a type of wine container (literally 'hollow-lidded' vessels) with no exact English equivalent. Exartismos refers to equipping or provisioning, probably of a ship for the Red Sea or Indian trade; the text is thought to belong to customs or export records for wine.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Memorandum for the account of Gaius Iulius Epaphroditos). 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.1.84
Ἡρακλῆς Ἑρμίου οἴνου Ἰταλικοῦ κοιλοπόματα δ εἰς τὸν Γαίου Ἰουλίου Ἐπαφροδίτου λόγον εἰς ἐξαρτισμόν.