| Artefact ID | 621 |
| TM ID | TM 34065 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 2 (Šams al-Dīn) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Plaster |
| Writing medium | Graffito |
| Text content | Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | I.Oasis p. 29, no. 11; SB XX 14760; SEG XXXVIII 1736: Visitor's inscription. Reading: "Fl. Makarios, soldier of the Mauri Scutarii, found peace in Monesis". Wagner suggests that the expression ἔλαβεν τὴν εἰρήνην means that Makarios found the peace of Christ and alludes to a conversion. Wagner notes that the Notitia Dignitatum XXXI, 23 testifies of the presence of one cuneus equitum Maurorum Scutatorium in Lycopolis. Assiut was at the starting point of a caravan track leading to Kharga. |
| Selection criteria | Christian terms/formulas/concepts, Christian onomastics |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 399 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography and archaeological context (Wagner 1987: 27 and 182). |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Church, kathesterion, west wall, left side of the niche, in the continuity of I.Oasis p. 28, no. 5. |
| Accession number | Šams al-Dīn, in situ |
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