Blank Order Form from Epaphroditos to Pakoibis
Customs Order
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89211
Customs pass from Epaphroditos to Pakoibis for wine of Delius Aeimnestus TM 89211This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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A customs pass, apparently left blank, from Epaphroditos, agent of Delius Aeimnestus, an imperial freedman or slave, to the customs officer Pakoibis, ordering him to let jars of wine belonging to Delius through. It was found in a Roman rubbish dump at Berenike on the Red Sea coast and dates to about AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
Epaphroditos, (slave or agent) of Delius Aeimnestus Caesaris, to Pakoibis the quintanensis, greetings. Let pass of the property of Delius Aeimnestus Caesaris […] of wine, jars […]
The quantity of jars was never filled in, so this seems to be a prepared blank form. A 'quintanensis' was an official at the customs post connected with the quinta, a 2% duty, at Berenike.]
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Blank Order Form from Epaphroditos to Pakoibis). 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.2.185
Ἐπαφρόδειτος Δηλίου Ἀειμνήστου Καίσαρος Πακοίβι κουιντανησίῳ χαίρειν· πάρες τῶν Δηλίου Ἀειμνήστου Καίσαρος οἴνου μ…εμμ κεράμια