Coptic contract amongst two monks from the monastery of Apa *Ieremias (saint of Saqqara, S00773) at Memphis concerning duties on a ship, from Memphis (Lower Egypt); datable to the 8th century.
Evidence ID
E01921
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - Other private document
CPR 4 17, line 2:
ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲓⲉⲣ[ⲏⲙⲓⲁⲥ? ϩⲙ] ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲙⲉⲃ[ⲉ?]
'… the monk of saint Apa Jeremias (?) [on] the mountain of Memphis (?) …'
Cult Places
Cult building - monastic
Source
Fragmentary papyrus document from Memphis, housed at the papyrus collection in Vienna. The document is dated on palaeographical grounds.Bibliography
Text:Till, W.C., Corpus Papyrorum Raineri IV (CPR IV): Die koptischen Rechtsurkunden der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Vienna, 1958), 13–14.
Further reading:
Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris: CNRS, 2001), 423.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
12/10/2016
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00773 | Ieremias, Enoch and Sibylla, saints of Saqqara | ⲓⲉⲣ[ | Certain |
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