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Artefact ID902
TM IDTM 73971
Findspot (DEChriM ID)1   (Dūš)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Douch IV 418: Account

Written on both sides. Messy summary of grain supplies to military men, many of whom have the rank of optio. Some Christian names such as Ioseph, Makarios, Paulos

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from330
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography, content and dossier connections, archaeological context (O.Douch IV, p. viii; O.Waqfa, p. 15; O.Douch V, p. vi; see also Carrié 2004: 262-263 and Clarysse 2014: 106, n. 18 who gives ca. 330 as a terminus post quem.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

"Ville": maison I

Accession number

Dūš, SCA storage, excavations IFAO 1985-1988 no. 86-275.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Wagner, Guy. 1999. Les ostraca grecs de Douch, vol. IV. Documents de Fouilles 24/4. Cairo: Ifao, no. 418 and pl. XI.

Additional bibliography

• Carrié, Jean-Michel. 2004. "Portarenses (douaniers), soldats et annones dans les archives de Douch, Oasis Major". In Mélanges d'antiquité tardive : studiola in honorem Noël Duval, edited by C. Balmelle, P. Chevalier et G. Ripoll. Turnhout, 261-274.

• Clarysse, Willy. 2014. "Artabas of Grain or Artabas of Grains?" The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51, 101-108.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 902", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/902
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