Order to Let Pass
Customs order
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89178
Order to let pass jars of vinegar-wine for Pakoibis TM 89178This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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A customs pass written on an ostracon from Berenike on the Red Sea coast, in which Harpochras instructs Pisimouis to let Pakoibis son of Haronnophris through with eight jars of vinegar-wine. It dates to about AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
Harpoch(ras?) to Pisimouis, greetings. Let pass for Pakoibis son of Haronnophris, (for) kasom(?) of six months, 8 hollow-lidded jars of vinegar-wine.
The word 'kasom' is obscure and left untranslated; 'oxos' is sour wine or vinegar-wine, and 'koilopomata' appear to be a type of jar with a hollow stopper.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to Let Pass). 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.2.152
Ἁρποχ Πισιμούιτι χαίρειν· πάρες Πακοίβι Ἁροννώφρεως κασομ ἑξαμήνου ὄξους κοιλοπώματα η.