Evidence ID
E05446
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
I.Sarga 34
[ ⲧⲉⲛ]ⲙⲁⲩ ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲡⲉⲛⲉⲓⲱⲧ ⲁⲇⲁⲙ ⲁⲣⲓ ⲡⲙ[ⲉⲉⲩ]ⲉ̣ …
‘[…our] mother Mary, our father Adam, remember … (details of deceased individual to be protected are lost).’
Text and translation: W. E. Crum, modified.
Cult PlacesCult building - unspecified
Non Liturgical Activity
Cult building - unspecified
Cult building - monastic
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), 63.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
17/5/2018
ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00033 | Mary, Mother of Christ | ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ | Certain | S00772 | Adam and Zoe/Eve, the first man and woman | ⲁⲇⲁⲙ | Certain |
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