Order to Dispatch
Customs Order
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89193
Order to dispatch fifty-eight jars of wine to Petearpochrates TM 89193This document was discovered in a Roman dump at BerenA.D. 50 - 75
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A short order on an ostracon from Sarapion son of Kasios to Andouros, instructing him to release 58 jars of wine to Petearpochrates son of Psentphous. It dates to the third quarter of the first century AD and was found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea.
In English machine translation
Sarapion son of Kasios to Andouros, greetings. Dispatch to Petearpochrates son of Psentphous 58 (?) jars of wine, fifty-eight.
Epeiph 11.
The abbreviation after 'wine' (πολ) is unclear; it may give the wine's type or origin, or the number in figures. Such Berenike orders are usually understood as customs or dispatch passes for goods.
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 Dispatch). 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.2.167
Σαραπίων Κασίου Ἀνδουρωι χαίρειν· διαπόστειλον Πετεαρποχράτῃ Ψεντφοῦτος οἴνου πολ κεράμια πεντήκοντα ὀκτώι. Ἐπεὶφ ια.