| Artefact ID | 1474 |
| TM ID | TM 34154 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Textual |
| Material | Ceramic |
| Writing medium | Ostracon |
| Text content | Documentary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | O.Bahria 4; SB 20 14888: Account for grain |
| Selection criteria | Christian onomastics, Archaeological context associated with Christian markers |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography; most Bahariya ostraca date from the 4th c. or Byzantine period. A small number can be placed in the 2nd or 3rd c. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Discovered by Ahmed Fakhry during the excavation of the brick buildings around the temple of Alexander the Great (published 1942), the fragment is now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Wagner later discovered an envelope labeled "Bahria Oasis” containing photographs of 68 Greek, Coptic and Arabic ostraca in the archives of A. Fakhry, deposited at the DAI Cairo after his death. Of the 32 Greek ostraca photographs, Wagner 1987 assigned some ostraca to the “Dossier of Sarmates” and “Dossier of Dorotheos son of Marinos”. 16 ostraca remained unassigned to either dossier, and were titled O.Bahria Div. |
| Accession number | Cairo, Egyptian Museum JdE IX 25/7/48/4 |
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