Blank Order Form from Epaphroditos to Pakoibis
Customs Order
One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 89214
Order from Epaphroditos to Pakoibis to let pass wine of Delios Aeimnestos TM 89214This document was discovered in a Roman dump at Berenike.A.D. 50 - 75
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An ostracon pass (customs order) from Epaphroditos, agent or slave of Delios Aeimnestos, an imperial (Caesar's) slave or freedman, to Pakoibis the quintanensis, authorizing passage of jars of wine belonging to Delios. The quantity was apparently left blank. It was found in a Roman dump at Berenike and dates to AD 50-75.
In English machine translation
Epaphroditos, slave of Delios Aeimnestos, of Caesar,
to Pakoibis, quintanensis, greetings. Let pass
of the [goods of Delios]
Aeimnestos, of C[aesar],
of wine […]
jars
The quintanensis was an official at the customs post who released goods on such orders; 'of Caesar' marks Delios as an imperial slave or freedman. The number of jars appears never to have been filled in, so the form may be a blank.
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.2.188
Ἐπαφρόδειτος Δηλίου Ἀειμνήστου Καίσαρος Πακοίβει κουιντανησίῳ χαίρειν· πάρες τῶν Δηλίου Ἀειμνήστου Καίσαρος οἴνου …[…] κεράμια