Greek list of payments on a wooden lid from Kynopolis (Middle Egypt), mentioning a presbyter of *Menas (soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073); datable to the 7th/8th c.
Evidence ID
E00209
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - Wood
SB 16.12998:
A list of money payments in wine written on the back of a wooden lid, from Cynopolis, 7th/8th century, mentions in line 1 the recipient of such a payment:
πρ(εσβύτερος) ἄπα Μη(νᾶ)
'presbyter of Apa Mena'
Translation: G. Schenke
Full text available under: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/sb;16;12998
Cult Places
Cult building - unspecified
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - lesser clergy
Source
Wooden lid of a box used as writing material for two different lists, one of them for payments in wine (lines 1–3), the other for money payments (lines 5–27). Date given on palaeographical grounds, object located at Baarn, Private collection Moen 615.Discussion
Whether these payments in wine were made to a church or a monastery of Menas, via its presbyter, remains unclear. But the receipt for wine indicates an active cult for Menas at Cynopolis in the 7th/8th century.Bibliography
Edition:Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten, XVI (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1985-1988). = SB
Further reading:
Sijpestijn, P.J., "Ein hölzerner Deckel in der Sammlung Moen," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 49 (1982), 112–114.
For a full range of the documentary evidence on *Menas:
Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris: CNRS, 2001), 146–154.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
24/11/2014
ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00073 | Menas, soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena | Μηνᾶς | Certain |
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