E02435: Coptic contract, from the monastery of Epiphanios at Thebes (Upper Egypt), mentioning a topos of *Mark (the Evangelist, S00293) on the mountain of Jeme; datable to the first half of the 7th century.
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posted on 2017-03-03, 00:00authored bygschenke
P.Mon.Epiph. 84
The document is a contract between a priest of a topos of Apa John in the desert and a camel herd concerning the conditions under which the latter is to tend to the animals.
The scribe of the document who also acts as one of the witnesses to this contract is a priest of a topos of Mark the Evangelist, located on the mountain of Jeme.
The ostracon was found at the monastery of Epiphanios at Thebes and is housed at the Museum in Cairo, Inv. 44674.69. It has been dated on palaeographical grounds.
Bibliography
Text and Translation:
Crum, W.E., and Evelyn White, H.G., The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, Part II (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition; New York, 1926), p. 27 (text), p. 173 (trans.).