Coptic funerary stela from Antinoe/Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt) with an invocation to *Kollouthos (physician and martyr of Antinoopolis, S00641) to have mercy on a deceased woman; datable to the 7th century.
Evidence ID
E04218
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
P.MoscowCopt. 84:
+ ⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲙⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲕⲟⲗⲑⲉ ⲉⲕⲉⲣⲟⲩⲛⲁ ⲙⲛ ⲧⲉⲯⲏⲭⲏ ⲛⲧⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲁ ⲙⲏⲕⲁⲣⲟⲩ ⲛⲧⲁⲥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ⲙⲏⲧⲟⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲁϣⲟⲛⲥ ⲛⲧⲓⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲧⲁⲓ ⲧⲉⲧⲁⲣⲧⲏⲥ (ⲓ)ⲛⲇ(ⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ) ⲁⲣ ⲧⲁⲅⲁⲡⲉ ϣⲗⲏⲗ ⲉϫⲱ ϫⲉ ⲁⲃⲱⲕ ⲉⲟ ⲛⲯ<ⲏⲭ>ⲏ ⲥⲉⲛⲧⲉ ⲧⲉⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲉⲣⲟⲩⲕⲱ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲙⲛ ⲧⲁⲯⲏⲭⲏ ⲛⲧⲁⲗⲉⲡⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲉⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲉⲡⲛⲟϭ ⲛϩⲁⲡ ϩⲁⲁⲙ ⲉⲃⲉϣⲱⲡⲉ +
‘God of saint Kolthe (Kollouthos), may you have mercy on the soul of the blessed Mekarou. She has gone to rest on day eleven of (the month) Pashons in this fourth indiction.
Be so kind, pray for me, since I went being troubled, and God will forgive my miserable (ταλαίπωρος) soul on the day of the great judgment. Amen. So be it.’
Text: P. V. Jernstedt. Translation: G. Schenke.
Non Liturgical Activity
Prayer/supplication/invocation
Source
The document is housed in the Pushkin Museum in St Petersburg. Dated on palaeographical grounds.Bibliography
Text and Russian translation:P. V. Ernshtedt (Jernstedt), Koptskie teksty Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina (Leningrad, 1959), 168–169.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
27/10/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00641 | Kollouthos, physician and martyr of Antinoopolis | ⲕⲟⲗⲑⲉ | Certain |
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