English summary: The Ostraca House in Abu Mena is a medium-sized multi-story building, which was badly destroyed by fire after the Arab conquest of Egypt (at around 639/42). Despite being used by neighboring inhabitants as landfill, it led archeologists to the discovery of nearly 2000 Greek ostraca. In this volume Peter Grossmann examines the origins of these ostraca. The house was an official building owned privately and not by the state, which had, among other things, something to do with the organization of the grape ...
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English summary: The Ostraca House in Abu Mena is a medium-sized multi-story building, which was badly destroyed by fire after the Arab conquest of Egypt (at around 639/42). Despite being used by neighboring inhabitants as landfill, it led archeologists to the discovery of nearly 2000 Greek ostraca. In this volume Peter Grossmann examines the origins of these ostraca. The house was an official building owned privately and not by the state, which had, among other things, something to do with the organization of the grape harvest and the payment of grape pickers in the surrounding vineyards. In addition, there was a larger abutting complex of buildings in the immediate vicinity of the building, with five closely-packed presses built at different times, which would suggest that it makes sense to link the excavated ostraca to the existence of these presses. These are the only presses that were allowed to remain under Roman control within the holy precinct (temenos), which suggests that they were, in part at least, private ecclesiastical possessions. This is also confirmed by the fact that the ostraca are written exclusively in Greek. German description: Das Ostraka-Haus von Abu Mina ist ein mehrgeschossiger Bau mittlerer Grosse, der nach der arabischen Eroberung Agyptens (um 639/42) durch Feuer stark zerstort und von den angrenzenden Bewohnern als Mulldeponie genutzt wurde, den Ausgrabern aber gleichzeitig die Entdeckung von nahezu 2000 griechischen Ostraka bescherte. Peter Grossmann untersucht in seinem Band die Herkunft der Ostraka. Bei dem Gebaude handelte es sich um ein privates, nicht in staatlichem Besitz befindliches Amtsgebaude, das u.a. mit der Organisation der Traubenernte (Weinlese) und der Entlohnung der Erntearbeiter in den Weinbergen zu tun hatte. Daruber hinaus fand sich in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft dieses Gebaudes ein grosserer zusammenhangender Gebaudekomplex, der funf dicht aneinanderstossende und zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten erstellte Presseinrichtungen aufwies, so dass es nahelag, die ausgegrabenen Ostraka auf diese Pressen zu beziehen. Es sind die einzigen Pressen, die unter romischer Verwaltung innerhalb des kirchlichen Bezirks (temenos) verbleiben durften, was dafurspricht, dass diese Pressen gewissermassen zum privaten kirchlichen Besitz gehorten. Dies wird auch dadurch bestatigt, dass alle Ostraka ausschliesslich in griechischer Sprache verfasst sind.
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