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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Jug with Greek inscription mentioning *Menas (soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073). Found at Abu Mina (southwest of Alexandria, Egypt). Probably 5th/6th c.

Evidence ID

E07296

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Inscribed objects

τοῦ ἁγίου Μηνᾶ

'Of Saint Menas.'

Text: Kaufmann 1910, 118.

Source

Jug with Greek inscription found at Abu Mina.

Bibliography

Edition:

Kaufmann, K. M.,
Die Menasstadt und das Nazionalheiligtum des altchristlichen Aegypter in der westalexandrinischen Wüste: Ausgrabungen der Frankfurter Expedition am Karm Abu Mina 1905-1907, vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1910), 118 and pl. 85/2.

Further Reading:

Papaconstantinou, A., Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides: L'apport des inscriptions et des papyrus grecs et coptes (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2001), 148-149.


Record Created By

Małgorzata Krawczyk

Date of Entry

31/12/2018

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00073Menas, soldier and martyr buried at Abu MenaΜηνᾶςCertain


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