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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Coptic inscription from Wadi Sarga (Upper Egypt), with an invocation of *Moses (S00241), *Adam (the first man, S00772), *Peter (S00036), *John the Baptist (S00020), *John the virgin (S00042), the *Apostles (S00084), and the *Martyrs (S00060); datable to the 7th/8th century.

Evidence ID

E05441

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

I.Sarga 52

The text is very fragmentary and only partly legible. For that reason, no Coptic text, but only a short description has been provided by W. E. Crum, Wadi Sarga, p. 73.


Cult Places

Cult building - monastic
Cult building - unspecified

Non Liturgical Activity

Prayer/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), 73.


Record Created By

Gesa Schenke

Date of Entry

17/5/2018

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00020John the BaptistCertain
S00036Peter, the ApostleCertain
S00042John, the Apostle and EvangelistCertain
S00060Martyrs, unnamed or name lostCertain
S00084Apostles, unnamed or name lostCertain
S00241Moses, Old Testament prophet and lawgiverCertain
S00772Adam and Zoe/Eve, the first man and womanCertain


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