E05974: Coptic ostracon from Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt) with a receipt for the full payment of a salary, mentioning the steward of an institution dedicated to Apa *Phaustos (presumably the martyr of Alexandria, S00299) acting as a witness and the scribe of the document; datable around the year 600.
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posted on 2018-07-18, 00:00authored byBryan
O.Crum 51
The document addressing bishop Apa Abraham acknowledges the complete payment of a salary. Two witnesses subscribe to it, one of them acting also as the scribe and being identified as the oikonomos (steward) of Apa Phaustos.
Lines 3–5 of the back of the ostracon read as follows:
This ostracon is kept at the British Museum in London, inv. 32899.
Bibliography
Text and translation:
Crum, W.E., Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund (London, 1902), p. 13 and 35. = O.Crum
German translation:
Till, W.C., Die Koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Theben (Vienna, 1964), 46.