E04096: Coptic letter from the monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit (Middle Egypt), asking a member of the monastery to arrange for two garments to be sent and to act mercifully, to ensure the blessing of the saints (unnamed, S00518); datable to the 8th century.
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posted on 2017-10-02, 00:00authored bygschenke
P.Mon. Apollo 55:
The fragmentary document seems to be a letter written to a representative of the monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit. The sender asks for two maphoria (head covers or monastic garments) to be sent. The addressee is to act mercifully to ensure that the blessing of the saints will be upon the monastic congregation.
Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet
Documentary texts - Letter
Language
Coptic
Evidence not before
700
Evidence not after
799
Activity not before
700
Activity not after
799
Place of Evidence - Region
Egypt and Cyrenaica
Place of Evidence - City, village, etc
Bawit
Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Bawit
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
Hermopolis
Cult activities - Places
Cult building - monastic
Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Prayer/supplication/invocation
Source
The papyrus document P.Hermitage Copt. 39 is kept at the Hermitage Museum as inv. 13495. The document is only partially preserved and has been dated on palaeographical grounds.
Bibliography
Text:
Clackson, S.J., Coptic and Greek Texts relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo (Oxford, 2000), 130–131.