Order from Claudius Philetos
Remains of a customs pass for wine exportation.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70868
Customs pass for Aminnaean wine issued by Claudius Philetos TM 70868Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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A customs pass on an ostracon from Berenike in which Claudius Philetos instructs the gate officials to let Psenosiris son of Chesthotes through with eight jars of Aminnaean wine. It dates to the mid-1st century AD.
In English machine translation
Claudius Philetos
to those at the gate: let pass
for Psenosiris son of Chesthotes 8 (jars of) Aminnaean wine, total 8.
Aminnaean wine was a prized wine type; the jars were probably being moved through the gate at Berenike, the Red Sea port.
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 Claudius Philetos). 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.1.91
Κλαύδιος Φίλητος τοῖς ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην· πάρετε Ψενοσίρει Χεσθώτου οἴνου ἀμινναῖα ὀκτώ, γίνεται η.