E05977: Coptic ostracon from Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt) with a work contract, mentioning the monastery of Apa *Phoibammon (soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080); datable around the year 600.
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posted on 2018-07-18, 00:00authored bygschenke
O.Crum 200
In this very fragmentary document a monk and oikonomos of the monastery of Apa Phoibammon hires a herdsman. Lines 1–2 read as follows:
This ostracon is kept at the British Museum in London, inv. 32978.
Bibliography
Text and translation:
Crum, W.E., Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund (London, 1902), p. 30 and 38. = O.Crum
German translation:
Till, W.C., Die Koptischen Rechtsurkunden aus Theben (Vienna, 1964), 55.