Order to Dispatch
Customs Order
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Order to dispatch six jars of wine to Pakoibis TM 89207This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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A short customs order on an ostracon from Berenike on the Red Sea coast, in which Sarapion son of Kasios instructs someone to dispatch six jars of wine to Pakoibis. It is dated Epeiph 11 and belongs to the period AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
Sarapion son of Kasios to […], greetings. Dispatch to Pakoibis son of Pa… […] of wine, polychronion (?), 6 jars, (total) 6.
Epeiph 11.
The abbreviation 'πολ' is uncertain; in Berenike ostraca it is often understood as polychronion, a long-aged wine. Such orders authorized the passage of goods through customs at the 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 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.2.181
Σαραπίων Κασίου …[…] […]… χαίρειν· διαπόστειλον Πακοίβει Πα… […] οἴνου πολ κεράμια ἕξ, ϛ. Ἐπεὶφ ια.