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Artefact ID901
TM IDTM 73968
Findspot (DEChriM ID)1   (Dūš)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Douch IV 415: Payment order.

Issued by Psenosiris, priest (?), instructing Kapanis son of Taeis and Horigenes to provide modii of barley. The end was unreadable to the editor.

A Christian priest named Psenosiris is found at the end of the 3rd c. in Kysis, in the archive of the Nekrotaphoi of the oasis, see P.Nekr. 28.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions
Date from350
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography, content and dossier connections, archaeological context (O.Douch IV, p. viii; O.Waqfa, p. 15; O.Douch V, p. vi; see also Carrié 2004: 262-263).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

"Ville": maison I

Accession number

Dūš, SCA storage, excavations IFAO 1985-1988 no. 85-197

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Wagner, Guy. 1999. Les ostraca grecs de Douch, vol. IV. Documents de Fouilles 24/4. Cairo: Ifao, no. 415 and pl. X.

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 901", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/901
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