Order from Serapion to Andouros, the quintanensis
Remains of a customs document for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70863
Order from Sarapion to the quintanenses to pass wine for the ship Gymnasiarchis TM 70863Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A short pass or customs order from Sarapion to Pisipmous and Andouros, officials of the quintana (a customs post), instructing them to let through a consignment of wine being loaded onto the ship Gymnasiarchis. It was found in the Roman dump at Berenike on the Red Sea coast and dates to the mid-1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Sarapion to Pisipmous and Andouros, quintanenses, greetings. Let pass […] of Pakoibis (?) […] wine […] 30 (?), being loaded onto the ship Gymnasiarchis.
Quintanenses were staff of the quintana, a customs station at Berenike, possibly named after a 1/5 duty. The quantity of wine is lost apart from a numeral read as 30.
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 Serapion 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.1.86
Σαραπίων Πισιπμοῦτι καὶ Ἀνδουρωι κουιντανησίοις χαίρειν· πάρες […]εις Πακοίβεως οἴνου […] λ τὸ ἐμβαῖνον εἰς πλοῖον Γυμνασιαρχίδα.