| Artefact ID | 139 |
| TM ID | TM 34157 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 21 (Qaṣr al-Miqīṣba) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Ceramic |
| Writing medium | Ostracon |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | O.Bahria 10; SB XX 14892: Payment order. Payment order in form of a letter from Athanasios to Petros, priest (per(sbuteros) for presbuteros) of the village of Poka: the latter is instructed to distribute one artaba of barley. The text is dated to August 27, indiction 11. |
| Selection criteria | - |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Apart from the palaeographic criteria, this text is part of a Greek ostraca lot (O.Bahria 3, 6, 7 and 10) of which one mentions year 51, that is, according to the Oxyrhynchite era, the year 374/375 (see Wagner 1987: 87 and O.Bahria 6).
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| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | This ostracon was uncovered by A. Fakhry during the excavation of the brick buildings around the temple of Alexander the Great (Fakhry 1950: 47 and pl. XXIXa, and Wagner 1987: 86). |
| Accession number | Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JdE IX 25/7/48/10 |
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