4care-artefacts

Artefact ID	1755
TM ID	TM 73142
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	72 (Ǧazīrat Aswān)
Class	Textual
Material	Ceramic
Writing medium	Ostracon
Text content	Documentary
Language	Greek
Description	O. Bodl. 2 2556, O.Tait Bodl. II 2556: Alphabetic Word List The remains of four words on four lines include the name Μάρκο[ς] on line 2: λάξ[ος] \| Μάρκο[ς] \| νέος \| ξανθος Clarysse 2018 describes the ostracon as “pink pottery covered by a brick-red surface layer”. Due to its alphabetic order, a complete list would have included 10 lines preceding and 10 lines following (possibly in a second column or on a second ostracon) the present four words. It was likely an exercise similar to SB 12 10769 (3rd/4th c. CE) and P. Bingen 17.
Selection criteria	Christian onomastics
Date from	350
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; initially assigned to the 2nd/3rd c., Clarysse 2018 dated it to the late 3rd/4th c. or later. He compares the writing to P.Vindob. G 19815 (~350–399 CE).
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Excavated (?) at Elephantine (Ǧazīrat Aswān), see Tait/Préaux 1955. Previously housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, now at the Ashmolean Museum.
Accession number	Oxford, Ashmolean Museum Bodl. Gr. Inscr. 1856

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