Coptic inscription on a wooden bar from a grave near Samalut (Middle Egypt) invoking *Apollo (monk and monastic founder, S00774) to watch over a deceased abbot of the monastery, presumably that of Apa Apollo at Bawit (Middle Egypt); datable to the 7th/8th century.
Evidence ID
E04083
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Inscribed objects
Inscriptions - Inscribed architectural elements
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
KSB 1 419
+ ⲡⲉⲛⲓⲱⲧ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱ ⲣⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲉⲁⲡⲁ ⲧⲁⲛⲓⲏⲗ ⲡⲓⲱⲧ ⲙⲡⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ϩⲁⲙⲏⲛ +
‘Our father Apa Apollo, protect Apa Daniel, the father/abbot of the monastery (topos). Amen.’
Text: M. Hasitzka
Translation: G. Schenke
Non Liturgical Activity
Prayer/supplication/invocation
Source
The whereabouts of this wooden inscription are unknown.Bibliography
Text:Hasitzka, M.R.M., Koptisches Sammelbuch I (KSB I) (Vienna, 1993), 151.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
27/9/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00774 | Apollo, Phib, and Anoup, monks and monastic founders | ⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱ | Certain |
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