Coptic guarantee document from Hermopolis (Middle Egypt), issued to the dikaion of a monastery dedicated to *John the Baptist (S00020), mentioning also a confraternity of the same saint; datable to the 8th century.
Evidence ID
E06815
Type of Evidence
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Documentary texts - Other private document
P.Lond.Copt. I 1046 = BM 1046
The monastery of saint John is addressed in line 1–2 as follows:
ⲉⲓⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲉⲡⲇⲓⲕⲁⲓⲟⲛ ⲙⲡⲙⲁ ⲛⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲙⲡ[ⲡⲉⲣⲓⲡⲁⲧⲟⲥ?
‘… I am writing to he dikaion of the place of saint John in the [Peripatos?]’
The confraternity of the same saint is mentioned in line 7 as follows:
ⲡⲟⲓⲕ]ⲟⲛⲟⲙⲟⲥ ⲙⲡⲉⲫⲓⲗⲟⲡⲟⲛⲓⲟⲛ ⲛⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲙⲡⲡⲉⲣⲓⲡⲁⲧⲟⲥ
‘… [the] oikonomos of the confraternity of saint John in the Peripatos.’
(Text W. E. Crum; trans. G. Schenke)
Cult PlacesMonastery
Cult building - monastic
Places Named after SaintMonastery
Hospital and other charitable institutions
Source
The papyrus document BM Or. 6022 is kept in the British Museum in London and was dated on palaeographical grounds.Discussion
For the same institution see E06816 and E02163.Bibliography
Text and comments:Crum, W.E., Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (P.Lond.Copt. I) (London, 1905), 435.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
17/10/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00020 | John the Baptist | ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ | Certain |
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