| Artefact ID | 689 |
| TM ID | TM 34122 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 2 (Šams al-Dīn) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Plaster |
| Writing medium | Graffito |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | I.Oasis p. 43, no. 66; SB XX 14817; SEG XXVI 1784: Invocatio. Four lines written within a frame. Double invocation to God and Christ (with nomen sacrum) to protect and keep the Latopolitan (i.e. Equites sagittarii indigenae, in Esna, according to the Not. Dign. Or. XXXI, 28) and their animals. One of them left an inscription in Dūš, see I.Oasis p. 59-60, no. 1. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Nomina sacra |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography and archaeological context (Wagner 1987: 27 and 182) |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Vestibule of the church, in the middle of the north-west wall. |
| Accession number | Šams al-Dīn, in situ |
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