Account relating to Wine Export
Remains of an account (?) relating to the wine trade out of Berenike.
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 70893
Fragmentary account mentioning jars of Laodicean wine TM 70893Roman dump at Berenike.33 - 70 A.D.?
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Three small fragments of an ostracon from the Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea, apparently an account concerning wine. It mentions 19 jars and Laodicean wine, likely part of the export trade through the port, in the mid-1st century AD.
In English machine translation
[Fragment 1]
[…] … and expenditure (?) […]
[…] 19 jars […]
[…] of Laodicean wine […]
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[Fragment 2]
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of these […]
of Laodicean wine […]
and […]
[…]
[Fragment 3]
[…]
[…]
[…] and of you […]
[…] and of you, Haryothes (?) […]
[…]
[…]
Laodicean wine came from Laodicea in Syria and was among the wines shipped through Berenike. The name Haryothes is restored from a few letters and is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Account relating to Wine Export). 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.1.116
[Fr1] […]…αν καὶ ἀνηλομα[…] […]να κεράμια ιθ …[…] […] οἴνου λαδικηνά[…] […]ω[…]ου […] [… ? lines lost …] [Fr2] [… ? lines lost …] τούτων …[…] οἴνου λαδικηνά[…] καὶ […] [… ? lines lost …] [Fr3] [… ? lines lost …] […]…ι[…] […] καὶ σοῦ […] […] καὶ σοῦ Ἁρυωθ[…] […]τα…[…] [… ? lines l…