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Artefact ID1478
TM IDTM 131064
Findspot (DEChriM ID)10   (Amḥayda)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Trim. 1 16; O.Amheida inv. 2067: Account of money 
List of payments (in talents) and names, containing Psenamounis, Pachoumis son of Karouris, Epimachos, Pathotes son of Psennesis, Epaphroditos, Psenpnouthes son of Louia, and Sais son of Besas. The ostracon (8.5 x 8.5 cm) is a fragment of a rim, the writing is on the convex side.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from350
Date to370
Dating criteria

Find context; according to the ed.pr., the thousands of talents indicate dating the ostracon after 351. The name Ψενπνούθης figures in multiple other Amḥayda ostraca: O.Trim. 1 204, O.Trim. 1 232, O.Trim. 1 239, O.Trim. 1 323, O.Trim. 1 324, O.Trim. 2 478, O.Trim. 2 502, O.Trim. 2 573, O.Trim. 2 620, and O.Trim. 2 622. It is considered an 'anonymous' theophoric name in scholarship (see Depauw/Clarysse 2013).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Excavated at Amḥayda by the Dakhleh Oasis Project, season 2004–2007. Discovered in Area 2.1, Room 8, DSU 74, FN 7.

Accession number

Egypt, Amheida, American excavations 2004-2007, Inv. 2067

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Bagnall, Roger S. and Giovanni R. Ruffini. 2012. Amheida I: Ostraka from Trimithis. Volume 1: Texts from the 2004–2007 Seasons. New York: New York University Press and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. 85, No. 16.

Additional bibliography
• Depauw, Mark and Willy Clarysse. 2013. “How Christian was Fourth Century Egypt? Onomastic Perspectives on Conversion.” Vigiliae Christianae 67: 407-435.

Authors
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022
Suggested citation
Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1478", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1478
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