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Neck of the amphora with Greek inscription mentioning *Menas (soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073). Found at Oxyrhynchos (Upper Egypt). Probably 6th/7th c.

Evidence ID

E07309

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Inscribed objects

ΧΜΓ. Ϥ̅Ⲑ̅. θεοῦ χάρις καίρδος ἁγίου Μηνᾶ Πέτρου Ἀφροῦς Παμνο[- - -]. Ϥ̅Ⲑ̅. Ϥ̅Ⲑ̅. Ϥ̅Ⲑ̅.

'ΧΜΓ, (amen). God's grace [is] a gain. (Church/monastery?) of Saint Menas. Of Petros, Aphrous, Pamno[...]. (Amen, amen, amen).'

Text:
SB I, no. 1965.

Source

Neck of the amphora with Greek inscription found at Oxyrhynchos (Upper Egypt).

Bibliography

Edition:

Derda, T., "Inscriptions with the Formula
θεοχάρις κέρδος on Late Roman Amphorae", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 94 (1992), 143, no. I 4.

Further Reading:

Derda, T., "Two Inscriptions on Late Roman Amphorae", in T. Derda (ed.), Deir El-Naqlun: The Greek Papyri (P. Naqlun I), (Warsaw, 1995), 167-168 and n. 10.

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.

Reference works:

Sammelbuch Griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, I (Straßburg, 1915), no. 1965.


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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