Coptic rent agreement from Hermopolis (Middle Egypt), mentioning a monastery dedicated to *John the Baptist (S00020) and a confraternity presumably of the same saint; datable to the 8th century.
Evidence ID
E06816
Type of Evidence
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Documentary texts - Lease or rental document
P.Lond.Copt. I 1023 = BM 1023
The fragmentary document mentions the institution and the confraternity in line 2–3 as follows:
ⲛⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟ]ⲥ ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲏⲥ ⲙⲡⲡⲉⲣⲓⲡⲟⲧⲏⲥ ϩⲓⲧⲛ ⲁⲡⲁ . . . . ⲡ]ⲇⲓⲁⲇⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲙⲛ ⲡⲥⲉⲉⲡⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲫⲓⲗⲟⲡⲟⲛ[ⲟⲥ]
‘… of saint] John in the Peripatos, represented through Apa …, the diadochos, and the rest of the confraternity …’
(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. 5999 is kept in the British Museum in London and was dated on palaeographical grounds.Discussion
For the same institution see E06815 and E02163.Bibliography
Text and comments:Crum, W.E., Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (P.Lond.Copt. I) (London, 1905), 426.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
17/10/2018
ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00020 | John the Baptist | ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲏⲥ | Certain |
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