Coptic inscription from Wadi Sarga (Upper Egypt), with an invocation of all the *Saints (S01151); datable to the 7th/8th century.
Evidence ID
E05440
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
I.Sarga 55
Following the invocation of God to remember a list of people mentioned by name, all the saints who have done the will of God are invoked to remember another group of people named.
Wadi Sarga 55, lines 6–9 read as follows:
ⲛⲉⲧⲟⲩⲁⲁⲃ [ⲧⲏ]ⲣⲟⲩ ⲛⲧⲁ<ⲩ>ⲣ ⲡⲟⲩ̣ⲱϣ ⲙⲡⲛ[ⲟ]ⲩⲧ[ⲉ] ϫⲓⲛ [ⲙ]ⲡⲉⲛⲓⲱⲧ ⲁⲇⲁⲙ ϣⲁ ϩ̣ⲣⲁⲓ ⲉ̣[ⲡⲟ]ⲟ̣ⲩ ⲛ̣ϩ̣ⲟ̣ⲟ̣ⲩ̣ ⲁⲣⲓ ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲛⲛ̣[
‘All the saints who have fulfilled the will of God, from our father Adam onwards to the present day, remember … (a long list of named individuals to be protected follows).’
Text: W.E. Crum. Translation: G. Schenke.
Cult PlacesCult building - monastic
Non Liturgical Activity
Cult building - monastic
Cult building - unspecified
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Source
The inscription was found at Wadi Sarga and is now housed in the British Museum in London.Bibliography
Text and translation:Bell, H.I. and Crum, W.E., Wadi Sarga: Coptic and Greek Texts from the Excavations Undertaken by the Byzantine Research Account (Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel-Nordisk Forlag, 1922), 74.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
16/5/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00518 | Saints, unnamed | Certain | S01151 | All Saints | Certain |
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