| Artefact ID | 685 |
| TM ID | TM 34117 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 2 (Šams al-Dīn) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Plaster |
| Writing medium | Graffito |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | I.Oasis p. 41-42, no. 61; SB XX 14812; SEG XXVI 1783: Visitor's inscription. Five lines of an inscription deeply and carefully engraved in the plaster, with a frame. Wishes of luck written by soldiers of the legion in Apollonos Ano/Edfu; among them one Biktor son of Paulos. Other inscriptions left by soldiers from the same legion are I.Oasis p. 32-33, no. 31 and I.Oasis p. 36-38, no. 49. About Taneus (l. 3), supposedly an ethnic according to Wagner, see Bagnall 1989: 383 and O.Chams el-Din 4, 2 (Πανευς). |
| Selection criteria | Christian onomastics |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography and archaeological context (Wagner 1987: 27 and 182) |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | In the corridor leading from the vestibule of the church to the kathesterion, north wall, just above the frieze. |
| Accession number | Šams al-Dīn, in situ |
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