| Artefact ID | 1305 |
| TM ID | - |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 11 (ʿAyn al-Ǧadīda) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Ceramic |
| Writing medium | Ostracon |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Coptic |
| Description | O.Gedida 1: Letter concerning a pakton. Complete ostracon although faded in places. Letter sent by apa Alexandros the foreman (kephalaiotes) to unknown person (name in lacuna) mentioning the sending away of Pesente and the renting of a pakton which apa Kire asks for. Initial and final crosses. Ed. note (l. 6n.) that "apa Kire" could also be read Apakire but Kire's appearance in the same context as apa Alexandros may indicate that he too represented an ecclesiastical institution. Possibly apa Kire was a monastic superior and the letter concerned rent on monastic property. An Alexandros appears in O.Kellis 121, one line after the mention of "Psais, monk". |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy, Coptic language |
| Date from | 375 |
| Date to | 425 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography, archaeologic context and parallel texts found in El-Qasr (O.al-Qasr 1 and O.al-Qasr 4) dated late 4th or early 5th c. according to Bagnall and Dzierzbicka 2018: 511. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Area B, room B4, DSU4 (surface) |
| Accession number | Excavations 2006-2008, inv. 4 |
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