Coptic document from the monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit (Middle Egypt), mentioning *Phib (monk and monastic founder, S00774); datable to the 6th/7th century.
Evidence ID
E04104
Type of Evidence
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Documentary texts - Letter
P.Mon.Apollo 49
In this document, a lack of wine seems to cause a request made by the monastery to have wine brought. The monk Petre of the monastery of Apa Apollo is sending this request to a female addressee asking her to bring it, if she has not yet sold it, and not to sell it to anyone else.
Line 3 of the fragmentary document reads as follows:
] ⲛⲁⲕⲁⲡⲏ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲫⲃ ⲥⲉϣ\ⲧ/ ⲛⲏⲣⲉⲡ ⲧⲉⲛⲟⲩ ⲧⲉⲧⲁⲟⲩⲉ ⲉ . . . . .
‘… ] kindly. Apa Phib: they are lacking wine. Now, are you informing …?’
Text: S. J. Clackson, lightly modified
Translation: G. Schenke
Festivals
Saint’s feast
Cult PlacesCult building - monastic
Source
The papyrus document P. CtYBR inv. 2102 is kept at the Beinecke Library, Yale University in New Haven. The dating is based on palaeographical grounds.Bibliography
Text and Translation:Clackson, S.J., Coptic and Greek Texts relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo (Oxford, 2000), 120–121.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
4/10/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00774 | Apollo, Phib, and Anoup, monks and monastic founders | ⲁⲡⲁ ⲫⲃ | Certain |
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