Coptic rent contract from Hermopolis (Middle Egypt) for parts of a house mentioning a 'street of the Archangel Gabriel', probably named after a church or a monastery of *Gabriel (the Archangel, S00192); datable to the 7th century.
Evidence ID
E02076
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - Lease or rental document
CPR 4 115, line 8
[........] . ⲛⲧⲉϩⲣⲩⲙⲏ ⲙⲡⲁⲣⲭ(ⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲟⲥ) ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ . . .
'[…] in the street of the Archangel Gabriel …’
A full record of the document can be found at: http://papyri.info/ddbdp/cpr;4;115
Places Named after Saint
Gates, bridges and roads
Source
The papyrus from Hermopolis, inv. no. P.Vindob. K 4910 is housed at the papyrus collection in Vienna. The document is dated on palaeographical grounds.Discussion
The same street seems to be referred to as 'the street of Apa Gabriel' in CPR 4 114, see E01923.Bibliography
Edition:Till, W.C., Corpus Papyrorum Raineri IV (CPR IV): Die koptischen Rechtsurkunden der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Vienna, 1958), 110–111.
Further reading:
Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris: CNRS, 2001), 424.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
6/12/2016
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00192 | Gabriel, the Archangel | ⲡⲁⲣⲭ ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ | Certain |
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