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Artefact ID1237
TM IDTM 97517
Findspot (DEChriM ID)66   (Tall al-Ḥirr)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Tell el-Herr 1: List of guards

List of 5 names, maybe soldiers, who apparently had to stand guard at one of the (minor?) gates of the camp. The list includes one Paulos and one Abraam [Abraham].

Other texts suggestive of Christianity from the same dossier are O.Tell el-Heir 2, 3 and 4.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Dated to 4th in ed. pr. (palaeography and onomastics). Note that archaeological finds suggest that the site had very little military activity after 360.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Found on October 24th 1992, in "secteur nord-ouest" (92.235 + 92.237)

Accession number

Tell el-Herr, excavation no. 312

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Wagner, Guy. 2000. Le camp romain du Bas-Empire à Tell el-Herr, ed. D. Valbelle, J.-Y. Carrez-Maratray. Paris, 146-151 (esp. p. 146, no. 1 and p. 151, with fig. 101).

Additional bibliography

• Verreth, Herbert. 2006. The Northern Sinai from the 7th century BC till the 7th century AD. A Guide to the Sources. 2 vol. Leuven (esp. vol. I, 773, no. 4).

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1237", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1237
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