| Artefact ID | 619 |
| TM ID | TM 34061 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 2 (Šams al-Dīn) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Plaster |
| Writing medium | Graffito |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | I.Oasis p. 28-29, no. 7; SB XX 14756; SEG XXVI 1786; SEG XXXIX 1701: Visitor's inscription. Five lines of text deeply engraved reading "Remember in this (holy) place, in the ... house of God, Herakleios" (with corrections by Bagnall 1989: 343). The adjective preceding "house" is problematic: Wagner read εὐσκίστη, taking it as an error for εὐσκί<α>στη, a hapax in Sophocles, Oed. Col. 1707; Bagnall 1989: 343 suggested an error for εὐσχίστῃ and Hagedorn 1996: 182 suggested to read θυσιαστηρ̣[ίῳ]. None of these solutions seemed fully satisfying to them. Another one suggested by R.A. Tybout (see SEG XXXIX 1701) could be εὐ{σ}κ⟨τ⟩ίστῃ. For a similar inscription in the same room, see I.Oasis p. 38-39 no. 50. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography and archaeological context (Wagner 1987: 27 and 182). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Church, kathesterion, west wall, left side of the niche, below I.Oasis p. 28, no. 5. |
| Accession number | Šams al-Dīn, in situ |
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