Evidence ID
E01090Saint Name
Shenoute, abbot of the White Monastery near Akhmim/Panopolis (Upper Egypt), ob. c. 465. : S00688Saint Name in Source
ΣινοῦθιςType of Evidence
Images and objects - Other portable objects (metalwork, ivory, etc.)
Inscriptions - Inscribed objectsEvidence not before
500Evidence not after
699Activity not before
500Activity not after
699Place of Evidence - Region
Egypt and CyrenaicaPlace of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
HermopolisCult Activities - Cult Related Objects
Ampullae, flasks, etc.
OtherSource
The disc belongs to the Musée du Louvre in Paris and was acquired in 1905. Nothing is said of its size or possible function. All that is quoted in the Jahrbuch des kaiserlich deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 21 (1906), 243, is the following: 'Terre cuite. 18. Disque portant sur sa face antérieure l’image en relief de saint Chenouti, debout, de face, nimbé, les bras étendus dans l’attitude de la prière. A doite et à gauche, l’inscription Ο ΑΓΙΟC | CΙΝΥΘΙ ////, dispose verticalement. Don de M. l’abbé Henry Thédenat, member de l’Institut. Égypt.'Discussion
Not knowing the actual size of the object, nor in what context it was found, makes it difficult to evaluate it. It might just be a circular fragment of a vessel or the bottom of a cup, but whether this makes it a private or a liturgical object remains just as open.Bibliography
Héron de Villefosse, A., and Michon, E., "Verzeichnis der Erwerbungen des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines für 1905," Archäologischer Anzeiger 21 (1906), 244; reprint in: Jahrbuch des kaiserlich deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 21 (1906), 241–244.
Papaconstantinou, A., Le Culte des Saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (Paris: CNRS, 2001), 185–186.
