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Artefact ID1010
TM IDTM 34206
Findspot (DEChriM ID)36   (ʿAyn al-Wāqifa)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Waqfa 1: Payment order.
Addressed to "my lord brother Phamoules", from Theodoros, instructing him to deliver 2 measures of wine to "father" Chrestos.

O.Waqfa 12 is another payment order issued by Theodoros (but the handwriting is different). A "father" Chrestos is also beneficiary of one artaba of barley in O.Douch IV 361. One "father" Chrestos appears as a tax payer in O.Waqfa 28.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian onomastics
Date from350
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography and connection with the Dūš ostraca, see O.Waqfa, p. 15.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Maison D, pièce 3

Accession number

ʿAyn al-Wāqifa, excavations EAS 1986-1987, no. 2378-115.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Cuvigny, Hélène, Adel Hussein and Guy Wagner. 1993. Les Ostraca grecs d’Aïn Waqfa (Oasis de Kharga). Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, Documents de Fouilles 30. Cairo: Ifao, no. 1 and pl. I.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1010", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1010
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