Order to Dispatch
Customs Order
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89194
Order from Sarapion to Andouros to dispatch wine for Eponychos TM 89194This document was discovered in a Roman dump at BerenikeA.D. 50 - 75
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A short customs pass written on a potsherd, in which Sarapion son of Kasios instructs Andouros to let through jars of wine for a man named Eponychos. It is dated Epeiph 11 and was found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea, from about AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
Sarapion son of Kasios to Andouros, greetings. Dispatch (on behalf?) of Eponychos […] of wine, … (?) [number lost] jars.
Epeiph 11.
Such orders ("dispatch") are customs passes allowing goods through to the port. The abbreviation "πολ" after "wine" is unclear and may describe the kind or origin of the wine.
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.2.168
Σαραπίων Κασίου Ἀνδουρωι χαίρειν· διαπόστειλον Ἐπωνύχου …[…] οἴνου πολ κεράμια […] Ἐπεὶφ ια.