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Artefact ID1354
TM IDTM 74817
Findspot (DEChriM ID)12   (Ismant al-Ḫarāb)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Kellis 287: Receipt for a chicken.

Receipt for on chicken delivered by Tau son of Psais for indiction 11. Signed by Pisitratos. Below the name of the latter, some traces and what the ed. suggests to be a "(Christian) staurogram" (but noted as simple Greek cross in edition). No image of the text is given.

Convex side inscribed parallel with the throwing marks. Vessel gulleh

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from323
Date to399
Dating criteria

Content and archaeological context: see Worp 2004: 226.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

From the NW of the Main Temple, Room 13, deposit 3.

Accession number

Kellis, excavations Dakleh Oasis Project 1986- no. #D/8/137; SCA#: not yet assigned.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Worp, Klaas. 2004. Greek Ostraka from Kellis. Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 13. Oxford, no. 287. 

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1354", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1354
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