4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1341
TM ID	TM 34335
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	72 (Ǧazīrat Aswān)
Class	Textual
Material	Ceramic
Writing medium	Ostracon
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	O.Eleph.Wagner 372 descr. / O.Eleph.DAIK 372 descr.: List of clerics. Ostracon broken for the upper part (left side missing of l. 1-6); the rest seems to be complete. The whole contains a list of names, spread over 13 lines, of deacons, priests and monks: Paam, deacon; Dios son of Ioannes, Psate son of Paam, Ellô son of Apa Dios [or rather from the topos of Apa Dios?], Isaias deacon, Sarapammon priest, Sabinos priest, Apa Kyros [or Apakyros?] his brother. Final Greek cross (noted as "christogramme" in the ed. pr. but the apparatus represents a Greek cross, whereas elsewhere in the ed. staurograms are fully represented in the apparatus).
Selection criteria	Mention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Mention of Christian individuals/communities, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from	350
Date to	499
Dating criteria	Dated 4/5th c. in ed.pr. probably on palaeographic grounds.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	-
Accession number	Elephantine, excavations DAIK no. O. 21084 (temporary inv.) (NB: The number Wagner gives is a find spot number not an object number.)

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