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Artefact ID442
TM IDTM 74659
Findspot (DEChriM ID)12   (Ismant al-Ḫarāb)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Kellis 131: List of names

Incomplete ostrakon in Greek script with a list of names figuring one Andr--, probably Andreas. The name, probably Christian at this time after Depaux and Clarysse 2013: 420, is already known in Kellis from P.Kellis I 71, 10 and P.Kellis IV 96, 129 where one Andreas is grammateus.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from200
Date to399
Dating criteria

Dated 3rd/4th c. in Worp 2004: 231.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

From the Main Temple, Forecourt, deposit 5.

Accession number

Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project 1986- no #D/l.B/10; SCA #2156

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Worp, Klaas. 2004. Greek Ostraka from Kellis. Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 13. Oxford, no 131: 120.

Additional bibliography

• Depauw, Marc and Willy Clarysse. 2013. "How Christian was Fourth Century Egypt? Onomastic Perspectives on Conversion." Vigiliae Christianae 67, 407-435.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 442", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/442
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