E06813: Coptic receipts from Hermopolis (Middle Egypt), issued by the dikaion of a monastery dedicated to *Phoibammon (presumably soldier and martyr of Assiut, S00080); datable to the 7th/8th century.

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posted on 2018-10-10, 00:00 authored by gschenke

P.Lond.Copt. I 1055 = BM 1055 Two receipts issued by the monastery of saint Phoibammon to a man named Kollouthos concerning deliveries of measures of corn. ⲡⲇⲓⲕⲁⲓⲟⲛ ⲛⲫⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲫⲟⲓⲃⲁⲙⲙⲱⲛ ‘The dikaion of saint Phoibammon’ (Text and trans. W. E. Crum)

History

Evidence ID

E06813

Saint Name

Phoibammon, soldier and martyr of Assiut : S00080

Saint Name in Source

ⲫⲟⲓⲃⲁⲙⲙⲱⲛ

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Phoibammon_soldier_and_martyr_of_Assiut/13729330

Type of Evidence

Late antique original manuscripts - Papyrus sheet Documentary texts - Other private document

Language

Coptic

Evidence not before

600

Evidence not after

799

Activity not before

600

Activity not after

799

Place of Evidence - Region

Egypt and Cyrenaica

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Hermopolis

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

Hermopolis Hermopolis ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Ashmunein Hermopolis

Cult activities - Places

Cult building - monastic

Cult activities - Places Named after Saint

Monastery

Source

The papyrus document BM Or. 6030 is kept in the British Museum in London and was dated on palaeographical grounds.

Bibliography

Text and comments: Crum, W.E., Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (P.Lond.Copt. I) (London, 1905), 438.