E04025: Coptic agreement from Jeme (Upper Egypt) settling a dispute over inheritance, listing among the witnesses a deacon of a local church dedicated to the *Apostles (S00084), as well as a deacon and a priest of the local church of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033); dated 26 February 738.
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posted on 2017-09-14, 00:00authored bygschenke
P.KRU 38:
At the end of this settlement of dispute follows a list of witnesses, of which one is a a deacon of the church of the Apostle, while two other are clergymen of the church of Mary.
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Documentary texts - Other private document
Language
Coptic
Evidence not before
738
Evidence not after
738
Activity not before
738
Activity not after
738
Place of Evidence - Region
Egypt and Cyrenaica
Place of Evidence - City, village, etc
Jeme
Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Jeme
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
Hermopolis
Cult activities - Places
Cult building - unspecified
Source
The papyrus document, BM Ms Add. 31290, fol. 281, is described in the British Museum catalogue, no. 424. The original is now housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, as Ms Copt a 6 (p).
Discussion
The church of the Apostle(s) is also mentioned in another document from Jeme, P.KRU 36, where a different deacon of this church acts as a scribe for one of the witnesses mentioned, see E04023.
Bibliography
Edition and Translation:
Crum, W.E., and Steindorff, G., Koptische Rechtsurkunden des achten Jahrhunderts aus Djeme (Theben) (Leipzig, 1971), 130–133.
Till, W.C., Erbrechtliche Untersuchungen auf Grund der koptischen Urkunden (Vienna, 1954), 121–123 (German Translation).