Coptic ostracon from Jeme (Upper Egypt) with a document concerning payments mentioning the feast of *Kyriakos/Karakos (presumably the child martyr of Tarsus, S00007); datable to the 7th century.
Evidence ID
E05982
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - Other private document
Late antique original manuscripts - Ostracon/Pot-sherd
O.Crum 238
The document is very fragmentary, but seems to concern payments to be made at or for the feast of saint Kyriakos/Karakos.
Line 6 reads as follows:
] ⲛⲡϣⲁ ⲛⲕⲁⲣⲁⲕⲟⲥ
‘… at/for the feast of Karakos.’
(Text: W. E. Crum; trans.: G. Schenke)
Festivals
Saint’s feast
Cult PlacesCult building - unspecified
Source
This ostracon belongs to the Collection Flinders Petrie , inv. 32.Bibliography
Text and translation:Crum, W.E., Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund (London, 1902), pp. 44 and 61. = O.Crum
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
1/8/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00007 | Kyrikos/Cyricus and Ioulitta/Julitta, child and his mother, martyrs of Tarsus | ⲕⲁⲣⲁⲕⲟⲥ | Uncertain |
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