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                "site_uri": "https:\/\/4care-skos.mf.no\/site\/37",
                "modern_name": "Qa\u1e63r al-Ma\u02bf\u012bsara",
                "ancient_name": "",
                "typology": "village",
                "date_from": 0,
                "date_to": 0,
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                "place_names": [
                    {
                        "language": "Arabic",
                        "pl_name": "\u0642\u0635\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0639\u064a\u0633\u0631\u0629"
                    },
                    {
                        "language": "English",
                        "pl_name": "el-Me'ysera | el-Meyserah"
                    },
                    {
                        "language": "French",
                        "pl_name": "Kasr Ma'esra"
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                "description": "Qa\u1e63r al-Ma\u02bf\u012bsara, which Fakhry calls al-Mi\u2019y\u1e63rah, is situated in Ba\u1e25ariya Oasis, 1.4km N\/NE from the Roman village of Qa\u1e63r al-\u02bfA\u01e7\u016bz. The site originally comprised a stone chapel, around which were numerous mud-brick buildings identified as domestic units which had been destroyed by fire in antiquity (Fakhry, 1950: 92). In these structures, Fakhry uncovered some 46 Greek and Coptic ostraca, amongst other artefacts, which document the presence of a Christian community (Ghica, 2012: 249). In a small ceramic vessel recovered from one of the burnt houses, which contained various gold and silver jewelry items, a gold coin of Emperor Valens was found, situating the occupation of the village no later than the fourth century (Fakhry, 1950: 92; Fakhry 1974: 105).\r\nThe lower three courses of the stone chapel were said to have been in situ in 1938, when Fakhry first visited the site. When he returned later in the year, however, he says that he found that \u201call the stones had been taken away by one of the government engineers to build an enclosure for a spring at Mand\u012bshah\u201d (Fakhry 1974: 102). This raises a number of questions, as the location identified as Qa\u1e63r al-Ma\u02bf\u012bsara (based on the maps and plan of Fakhry) still houses the remains of a stone temple. Perhaps he simply exaggerated by saying \u201call\u201d and meant, instead, that a large number of the stones had been removed?\r\nThe ancient name of this small village is unknown, but a Greek ostracon (SB 20 14891 = O.Bahria 8) found on the site by Fakhry mentions a water reservoir (hydreuma) known as \u1f55(\u03b4\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1) \u0398\u03b1\u03bb\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03a0\u03b5\u03c7\u1f7b\u03c3\u03b5[\u03c9\u03c2]. It could be assumed that this hydreuma was not too far away from Qa\u1e63r al-Ma\u02bf\u012bsara.",
                "archaeological_research": "The site was visited in 1938 by Ahmed Fakhry, who then conducted excavations in 1945 in the dwellings surrounding the chapel. No further fieldwork has been conducted, and very little information has ever been published.",
                "bibliography": "\u2022 Colin, F., D. Laisney and S. Marchand. 2000. \u201cQaret el-Toub: un fort romain et une n\u00e9cropole pharaonique. Prospection arch\u00e9ologique dans l\u2019oasis de Ba\u1e25ariya 1999.\u201d Bulletin de l\u2019Institut fran\u00e7ais d\u2019arch\u00e9ologie orientale 100: 153 and fig. 18.\u2022 Fakhry, A. 1950. The Egyptian Deserts: Ba\u1e25aria Oasis, vol. 2, 92. Cairo: Government Press.\u2022 Fakhry, A. 1974. The Oases of Egypt II: Bahriyah and Farafra Oases. Cairo: American University in Cairo.\u2022 Ghica, V. 2012. \u201cPour une histoire du christianisme dans le d\u00e9sert Occidental d\u2019\u00c9gypte.\u201d Journal des savants 2: 249-250.\u2022 Ghica, V. 2016. \u201cVecteurs de la christianisation de l\u2019\u00c9gypte au IVe si\u00e8cle \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re des sources arch\u00e9ologiques.\u201d In Acta XVI Congressus Internationalis Archaeologiae Christianae, Rome 22-28.9.2013, edited by O. Brandt and G. Castiglia, 240. Citt\u00e0 del Vaticano: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana.",
                "external_links": [],
                "authors": [
                    {
                        "author": "Rhiannon Williams",
                        "year": "2021"
                    },
                    {
                        "author": "Victor Ghica ",
                        "year": "2020"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
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