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Artefact ID891
TM IDTM 73928
Findspot (DEChriM ID)1   (Dūš)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Douch IV 375: Payment order

Issued by Paniskos, instructing the farmer Apollos to provide Psenpnouthes dromedarius with 4 artabas of wheat. Psenpnouthes is probably the same as in O.Douch III 330.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from375
Date to425
Dating criteria

Palaeography, content and archaeological context.

O.Douch IV 358-390 are dated in the late 4th c. or early 5th c. in ed. pr. (Wagner 1999: viii); see also Carrié 2004: 263 who suggests that the core of the Dūš ostraca were written between 385 and 420.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Fort M 23

Accession number

Dūš, SCA storage, excavations IFAO 1985-1988 no. 85-85

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Wagner, Guy. 1999. Les ostraca grecs de Douch, vol. IV. Documents de Fouilles 24/4. Cairo: Ifao, no. 375 and pl. IV.

Additional bibliography

Carrié, Jean-Michel. 2004. "Portarenses (douaniers), soldats et annones dans les archives de Douch, Oasis Major". In Mélanges d'antiquité tardive : studiola in honorem Noël Duval, edited by C. Balmelle, P. Chevalier et G. Ripoll. Turnhout, 261-274.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 891", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/891
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