Evidence ID
E05997
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - List
Late antique original manuscripts - Ostracon/Pot-sherd
O.Crum ad. 30
This document seems to be a list of donations made to the shrine of Apa John and Apa Jakob, or expenses in connection with a pilgrimage to the shrine, rather than of goods sold to a monastery dedicated to the saints. The list includes measure of wine, linen, sesame, and corn, as well as amounts of corn given for a camel and its fodder.
The head of the document reads as follows:
ⲡⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲧⲁⲓ . . . ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲉⲡⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲙⲛ ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃ
'The list of what I have … to the topos of saint Apa Ioannes and Iakob:'
(Text: W. E. Crum; trans.: G. Schenke)
Cult PlacesMonastery
Non Liturgical Activity
Cult building - unspecified
Places Named after SaintMonastery
Church
Non Liturgical ActivityBequests, donations, gifts and offerings
Source
The ostracon belongs to the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, inv. 575.Bibliography
Text and translation:Crum, W.E., Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund (London, 1902), p. 45 and 93. = O.Crum
German translation:
Till, W.C., Die Koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Theben (Vienna, 1964), 71.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
5/8/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00020 | John the Baptist | ⲁⲡⲁ ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ | Uncertain | S00042 | John, the Apostle and Evangelist | ⲁⲡⲁ ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ | Uncertain | S00280 | Jacob, Old Testament patriarch | ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃ | Uncertain |
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