Northern Sinai - Ostrakine (El-Felusiyat)

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Niketas David, Summorum apostolorum orationes laudatoriae

Passus 8 (col. 159): Ὀστρακίνη

Date:	AD 890 about
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Status:	polis (§ 8)
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Details:	'... How much did he bear in Eleutheropolis from the shield-bearers of impiety; how much in Gaza and Tyros, and in the adjacent village-towns of the foreigners, ... and when he went to Egypt, ... and this true man of Israel lived for a long time with the Egyptians, ... so he died for all men at the cross; in one of the cities of Egypt (called Ostrakine) he was sacrificed as a lam; ...'
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