Artefact ID | 693 |
TM ID | TM 32194 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 15 (al-Baǧawāt) | Class | Textual |
Material | Plaster |
Writing medium | Graffito |
Text content | Subliterary |
Language | Greek |
Description | I.Oasis p. 64-65 no. 4; IGChrEg 356; SB XX 14851; SEG XXXVIII 1700: Account of expenses. Graffito carefully engraved containing the account of expenses (40 artabs, sc. of wheat) related to the construction of the chapel (mnemion) of which it must be contemporary. Documentary abbreviations and symbols. |
Selection criteria | Archaeological context associated with Christian markers |
Date from | 250 |
Date to | 350 |
Dating criteria | On the basis of palaeography and language, Wagner suggests a date between the end of the 3rd c. and the beginning of the 4th c. for one of the earliest texts of the necropolis. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | - |
Accession number | Al-Baǧawāt, in situ (Chapel no. 242 / Roquet, Ghica no. 8.01) |