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 θεοῦ χάρις 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
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00073 | Menas, soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena | Μηνᾶς | Certain |
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