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E04218: Coptic funerary stela from Antinoe/Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt) with an invocation to *Kollouthos (physician and martyr of Antinoopolis, S00641) to have mercy on a deceased woman; datable to the 7th century.

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posted on 2017-10-24, 00:00 authored by gschenke

P.MoscowCopt. 84:

+ ⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲙⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲕⲟⲗⲑⲉ ⲉⲕⲉⲣⲟⲩⲛⲁ ⲙⲛ ⲧⲉⲯⲏⲭⲏ ⲛⲧⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲁ ⲙⲏⲕⲁⲣⲟⲩ ⲛⲧⲁⲥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ⲙⲏⲧⲟⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲁϣⲟⲛⲥ ⲛⲧⲓⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲧⲁⲓ ⲧⲉⲧⲁⲣⲧⲏⲥ (ⲓ)ⲛⲇ(ⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ) ⲁⲣ ⲧⲁⲅⲁⲡⲉ ϣⲗⲏⲗ ⲉϫⲱ ϫⲉ ⲁⲃⲱⲕ ⲉⲟ ⲛⲯ<ⲏⲭ>ⲏ ⲥⲉⲛⲧⲉ ⲧⲉⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲉⲣⲟⲩⲕⲱ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲙⲛ ⲧⲁⲯⲏⲭⲏ ⲛⲧⲁⲗⲉⲡⲟⲗⲟⲥ ⲉⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲉⲡⲛⲟϭ ⲛϩⲁⲡ ϩⲁⲁⲙ ⲉⲃⲉϣⲱⲡⲉ +

‘God of saint Kolthe (Kollouthos), may you have mercy on the soul of the blessed Mekarou. She has gone to rest on day eleven of (the month) Pashons in this fourth indiction.
Be so kind, pray for me, since I went being troubled, and God will forgive my miserable (ταλαίπωρος) soul on the day of the great judgment. Amen. So be it.’

Text: P. V. Jernstedt. Translation: G. Schenke.

History

Evidence ID

E04218

Saint Name

Kollouthos, physician and martyr of Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt), ob. early 4th cent. : S00641

Saint Name in Source

ⲕⲟⲗⲑⲉ

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Kollouthos_physician_and_martyr_of_Antinoopolis_Middle_Egypt_/13730809

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

Language

Coptic

Evidence not before

600

Evidence not after

699

Activity not before

600

Activity not after

699

Place of Evidence - Region

Egypt and Cyrenaica

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Antinoopolis

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Antinoopolis Hermopolis ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Ashmunein Hermopolis

Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Source

The document is housed in the Pushkin Museum in St Petersburg. Dated on palaeographical grounds.

Bibliography

Text and Russian translation: P. V. Ernshtedt (Jernstedt), Koptskie teksty Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina (Leningrad, 1959), 168–169.