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Artefact ID1341
TM IDTM 34335
Findspot (DEChriM ID)72   (Ǧazīrat Aswān)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Eleph.Wagner 372 descr. / O.Eleph.DAIK 372 descr.: List of clerics.
Ostracon broken for the upper part (left side missing of l. 1-6); the rest seems to be complete. The whole contains a list of names, spread over 13 lines, of deacons, priests and monks: Paam, deacon; Dios son of Ioannes, Psate son of Paam, Ellô son of Apa Dios [or rather from the topos of Apa Dios?], Isaias deacon, Sarapammon priest, Sabinos priest, Apa Kyros [or Apakyros?] his brother.

Final Greek cross (noted as "christogramme" in the ed. pr. but the apparatus represents a Greek cross, whereas elsewhere in the ed. staurograms are fully represented in the apparatus).

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Mention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from350
Date to499
Dating criteria

Dated 4/5th c. in ed.pr. probably on palaeographic grounds.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Elephantine, excavations DAIK no. O. 21084 (temporary inv.)

(NB: The number Wagner gives is a find spot number not an object number.)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Wagner, Guy. 1998. Elephantine XIII: Les papyrus et les ostraca grecs d'Elephantine, Mainz, no. 372 (no pl.).

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1341", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1341
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