Greek oracle question from unknown Egyptian provenance addressing *Kosmas and Damianos (brothers, physicians and martyrs of Syria, S00385) inquiring with respect to the benefits of a healing bath; datable to the 6th/7th century.
Evidence ID
E06150
Type of EvidenceDocumentay texts
Documentay textsLiturgical texts - Divinatory texts and oracle questions
P.Amst. 1.22:
Ἅγιοι Κοσμᾶ καὶ Δαμιαν[έ] κελεύεται τὸν δοῦλον ὑμῶν [ ] Γεροντίου λούσηται [ ]
‘Saint Kosmas and Damianos, … order your servant […, son of] Gerontios, to bathe himself, …’
Text: R. P. Salomons, P. J. Sijpesteijn and K.A. Worp.
Translation: G. Schenke
Liturgical Activities
Other liturgical acts and ceremonies
Cult PlacesCult building - unspecified
Non Liturgical ActivityDivination
Cult Related ObjectsWater basins
Source
The fragmentary papyrus document is kept at the papyrus collection in Amsterdam.Bibliography
Text and translation:Salomons, R. P., Sijpesteijn, P. J., and Worp,K. A., Die Amsterdamer Papyri, vol. 1, (Stud.Amst. XIV) (Zutphen, 1980).
Papaconstantinou, A., "Oracles chrétiens dans l'Egypte byzantine: le témoignage des papyrus," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 104 (1994), 281–286, esp. 283.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
20/8/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00385 | Kosmas and Damianos, brothers, physician martyrs of Syria | Κοσμᾶς καὶ Δαμιανός | Certain |
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