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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Coptic inscription on a wooden lintel with an invocation to *Michael (the Archangel, S00181) and *Apollo (monk and monastic founder, S00774), from the monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit (Middle Egypt); datable to the 6th/7th century.

Evidence ID

E01261

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Inscribed architectural elements

KSB 1 357

+ ⲟ ⲁⲣⲭⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲟⲥ                  ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱ
ⲙⲓⲭ ⲁ ⲁⲏⲗ                                    ⲱ
                                              ⲡⲁⲕⲟⲗⲟⲑⲱⲥ

'Archangel Michael, saint Apa Apollo, the attendant, Alpha and Omega!'


Translation: G. Schenke

Non Liturgical Activity

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Source

The wooden lintel inv. AF 4839/AF 4880 is kept at the Museé du Louvre in Paris.


Bibliography

Edition:
Hasitzka, M.R.M., Koptisches Sammelbuch I (KSB I) (Vienna, 1993), 131.


Record Created By

Gesa Schenke

Date of Entry

11/4/2016

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00774Apollo, Phib, and Anoup, monks and monastic foundersⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱCertain


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