Martyrdom of Ioulianos of Cilicia, fragment (BHG 965)
CG 10759 (binding)
Only one leaf, i.e. two pages remain of this parchment manuscript. The text preserves a fragment of the martyrdom account of Ioulianos of Cilicia, with recognisable phrases of the dialogue between the martyr and his persecutor, Markianos. [For the full Martyrdom of Ioulianos, see
E02549.]
Evidence ID
E02550Saint Name
Ioulianos, martyr of Cilicia : S00305Saint Name in Source
ἸουλιανόςType of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Accounts of martyrdom
Late antique original manuscripts - Parchment codexLanguage
GreekEvidence not before
400Evidence not after
599Activity not before
400Activity not after
599Place of Evidence - Region
Egypt and CyrenaicaPlace of Evidence - City, village, etc
PanopolisPlace of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Panopolis
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
HermopolisCult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Composing and translating saint-related textsSource
The text is written on a Greek parchment leaf which was found in the binding of the famous Berlin Codex, a 5th/6th-century manuscript of Coptic Biblical apocrypha. The codex was deposited in a tomb and buried with its owner. The parchment leaf is now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, CG 10759 (binding). The codex itself contained 33 leaves, i.e. 66 pages of different text, such as the Gospel of Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter, and parts of the book of Enoch. The manuscript has been dated on palaeographical grounds.Discussion
This hagiography of the Cilician martyr Ioulianos (on the story, see E02549 and E02544) is one of the few Greek hagiographic texts preserved in a late antique manuscript. The discovery of the manuscript in Akhmin confirms that the martyr's story was known in the Thebaid in the fifth century. The story of Ioulianos of Cilicia influenced the emergence of the story of Ioulianos of Antinoopolis, a martyr whose cult developed in the capital of the Thebaid.Bibliography
Edition:
Van den Gheyn, J. ‘Un fragment des Actes de S. Julien d’Anazarbe.’ Analecta Bollandiana 15 (1896), 73-76.
https://archive.org/details/AnalectaBollandiana1896/page/n77/mode/2up
On the manuscript:
Grenfell, B. P. and Hunt, A. S., Catalogue général des antiquités égpytiennes du Musée du Caire, No. 10001–10869, Greek Papyri, Oxford 1903, 93.
http://www.trismegistos.org/tm/detail.php?tm=64859
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