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Artefact ID946
TM IDTM 34378
Findspot (DEChriM ID)1   (Dūš)
ClassTextual
MaterialCeramic
Writing mediumOstracon
Text contentDocumentary
LanguageGreek
Description

O.Douch I 43: Payment order

Issued by the optio Theon instructing Priskos and Papnouthis to provide Eponychos with 25 modii of barley. The same Priskos and Papnouthis appear also together in O.Douch V 551.

Selection criteriaChristian onomastics
Date from350
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography, content and archaeological context (Wagner 2001: vi).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Sud du temple (Cuvigny 1988: 87)

Accession number

Cairo, Coptic Museum; Dūš, excavations IFAO 1976 inv. 72

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Cuvigny, Hélène and Guy Wagner. 1986. Les ostraca grecs de Douch, vol. I. Documents de Fouilles 24/1. Cairo: Ifao, no. 43 and pl. IV.

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.

• Cuvigny, Hélène. 1988. "O.Douch I : Addenda et corrigenda." In Les ostraca grecs de Douch, vol. II. edited by H. Cuvigny and G. Wagner. Cairo: Ifao, 85-88.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 946", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/946
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