Artefact ID | 893 |
TM ID | TM 73934 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 1 (Dūš) | Class | Textual |
Material | Ceramic |
Writing medium | Ostracon |
Text content | Documentary |
Language | Greek |
Description | O.Douch IV 381: Payment order Issued by Hatres, instructing his brothers in Pinor, An-- and Mou(ses?) son of --, to provide Elias with 3,5 annona measures (lithoi) of cotton; signed by the optio Flavius Plenis (a dromedarius from Hermonthis according to O.Douch V 551 and 618). Another Elias is found in O.Douch II 153A, 5, probably a military man according to the editor; see also O.Douch IV 435. |
Selection criteria | Christian onomastics |
Date from | 375 |
Date to | 425 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography, content and archaeological context. O.Douch IV 358-390 are dated in the late 4th c. or early 5th c. in ed. pr. (Wagner 1999: viii); see also Carrié 2004: 263 who suggests that the core of the Dūš ostraca were written between 385 and 420. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Fort M 23 |
Accession number | Dūš, SCA storage, excavations IFAO 1985-1988 no. 85-148. |