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Artefact ID445
TM IDTM 74818
Findspot (DEChriM ID)12   (Ismant al-Ḫarāb)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Kellis 288: Order for two chickens.

Order for delivery issued by a certain Aionianus to Ingen- who should deliver 2 chickens to Makarios son of Aionianus. For Makarios as a Christian name, see Depaux and Clarysse 2013: 420.

Convex side inscribed. Much of the text is faded.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics, Archaeological context associated with Christian markers
Date from200
Date to399
Dating criteria-
Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

From the West Church, Annex, Room 2, deposit 2 on 3.

Accession number

Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project 1986- no. #D/6/142; SCA # not yet assigned.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Worp, Klaas. 2004. Greek Ostraka from Kellis. Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 13. Oxford, no. 288: 175-176.  

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 445", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/445
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