Coptic inscription from Wadi Sarga (Upper Egypt), with an invocation of Apa *Phoibammon (possibly the soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080); datable to the 7th/8th century.
Evidence ID
E05464
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions
I.Sarga 65
[ⲁⲡⲁ ⲫⲟⲓⲃ]ⲁⲙⲟⲛ ⲁⲣⲓ ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ …
‘[… Apa] Phoibamon, remember …(details of deceased individual to be protected follow).’
(Text and trans. W. E. Crum)
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), 79.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
18/5/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00080 | Phoibammon, soldier and martyr of Assiut | ⲫⲟⲓⲃ]ⲁⲙⲟⲛ | Uncertain |
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