Customs pass from Epaphroditos to Pakoibis for jars of wine TM 89210This document was discovered in a Roman dump at BerenikeA.D. 50 - 75

A customs pass written on a potsherd by Epaphroditos, a slave in the household of Delias, who was himself a slave of the imperial slave Aeimnestos, to Pakoibis, a customs officer. It instructs him to let through people carrying jars of wine belonging to Delias. It was found in a Roman rubbish dump at the Red Sea port of Berenike, AD 50-75.

In English machine translation

The quintanensis was an official at a toll or customs post (possibly named for a 'fifth' tax or station). The genitives describe a chain of servitude: slave of Delias, slave of Aeimnestos, slave of Caesar; the meaning of prosgrapha here is uncertain and the text seems to break off before the quantity.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Letter from Epaphroditos slave of Delias to Pakoibis, Quintanensis). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.