4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1598
TM ID	TM 64435
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	12 (Ismant al-Ḫarāb)
Class	Textual
Material	Wood
Writing medium	Tablet
Text content	Subliterary
Language	Greek
Description	P. Kellis 1 88: Christian Amulet The holes were bored into the tablet (23.8 x 9.8 cm) after the author wrote onto the board. Side A contains a liturgical prayer containing the terms δεσπότας (line 2), θ(εὸ)ς αἰώνιος (line 3) and κ(υρίο)υ (line 4). An earlier text had occupied Side A before the prayer, but was washed away. Side B used to contain writing, which is now illegible. While the tablet may have been used as an amulet, containing a healing prayer, the holes and other markings indicate its use as the board of a notebook (?). Römer/Daniel/Worp 1997 see similarities to P. Barc. 155, and consider it may have been part of a liturgical collection. It is unclear whether the inhabitants of House 3 were Christian or Manichaean, and therefore the context of this prayer could fit either. Nomina sacra: θς, κυ
Selection criteria	Subliterary genre (Liturgical), Nomina sacra
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Find context
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Excavated at Kellis by the Dakhleh Oasis Project. Discovered in House 3, Room 8, level 4, North wall.
Accession number	Egypt, Kellis A/5/193, previously T.Kellis 10

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