4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1548
TM ID	TM 64595
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Ceramic
Writing medium	Ostracon
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	O.Theb. IV 48; P. Rainer Unterricht Kopt. 232: School exercise An alphabetic list of words on a vessel shard (13.5 x 8.2 cm), 11 lines of words divided by syllables with a space on the recto, 4 lines on the verso. A vertical line on the recto indicates another column of words broken off on the right side. The recto contains words with the initial letters Ⲃ, Ⲅ and Ⲇ, such as the name David (ⲆⲀ ⲨⲈⲒⲦ), the verso the initial letter Ⲙ, such as the name Markos (ⲘⲀⲢⲔⲞⲤ). Hasitzka 1990 points out that many of the words occur in both the Old and the New Testament.
Selection criteria	Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics, Coptic language
Date from	300
Date to	699
Dating criteria	The ed.pr. dated all the Theban Coptic ostraca to the 7th/8th c. Cribiore 1996 dates this ostracon to the 4th–6th c. Hasitzka 1990 does not assign it to any century
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Purchased at Thebes in 1906 by Charles T. Currelly and Joseph Grafton Milne. The collection was subsequently divided between the Bodleian Library at Oxford and the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology in Toronto.
Accession number	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Bodl. Copt. Inscr. 207

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