E02470: Coptic acknowledgement of debt addressed to monks of the monastery of Apa *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080), most likely the one on the mountain of Jeme (Upper Egypt), datable to the beginning of the 7th century.
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posted on 2017-03-07, 00:00authored bygschenke
BKU 1 78
In this acknowledgement of a debt, addressed to monks of the monastery of Apa Phoibammon, most likely the monastery of the healing saint on the mountain of Jeme, a man named Pataph from Patoubasten, in the Theban area, acknowledges his debt of one gold solidus to the brethren of the monastery of Apa Phoibammon.
Documentary texts - Other private document
Late antique original manuscripts - Ostracon/Pot-sherd
Language
Coptic
Evidence not before
600
Evidence not after
640
Activity not before
600
Activity not after
640
Place of Evidence - Region
Egypt and Cyrenaica
Place of Evidence - City, village, etc
Thebes
Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Thebes
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
Hermopolis
Cult activities - Places
Cult building - monastic
Source
The limestone ostracon was bought in Thebes and is now housed in the papyrus collection in Berlin, P.Berol. inv. 906. The text has been dated on palaeographical grounds.
Bibliography
Edition:
Erman, A., and Crum, W.E., Ägyptische Urkunden aus den koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin, Koptische Urkunden, vol. 1 (Berlin 1904), 91.