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E06949: The Greek Narrative of Ammonios on the *Forty Martyrs of the Sinai Desert and Forty Martyrs of Raithou, (S01620). Skeleton entry

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Narrative of Ammonios on the Monks of Sinai and Raithou (BHG 1300-1300k)

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Evidence ID

E06949

Saint Name

Forty Martyrs of the Sinai Desert and forty martyrs of Raithou : S01620

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Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Accounts of martyrdom

Language

  • Greek

Evidence not before

373

Activity not before

373

Activity not after

380

Place of Evidence - Region

Palestine with Sinai

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

Caesarea Maritima Καισάρεια Kaisareia Caesarea Kayseri Turris Stratonis

Source

For the manuscript tradition, see: http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/3879/ For the edition, see Bibliography.

Discussion

Cf. also the Narrations of Pseudo-Neilos of Ancyra (BHG 1301-1307): see Detoraki 2014, 79.

Bibliography

Text: Combefis, F., Illustrium Christi Martyrum Lecti Triumphi (Paris, 1660), 88-132. Tsames, D.G. and Katsanes, K.G., Τὸ μαρτυρολόγιον τοῦ Σινᾶ (Thessaloniki, 1989), 194-234. English translation: Caner, D.F., History and Hagiography from the Late Antique Sinai (Translated Texts for Historians 53; Liverpool, 2010), 149-171. Further reading: Detoraki, M., "Greek Passions of the Martyrs in Byzantium," in: S. Efthymiadis (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography II: Genres and Contexts (Farnham, 2014), 78-79. Devreesse, R., "Le christianisme dans la péninsule sinaïtique des origines à l'arrivée des Musulmans," Revue Biblique 49 (1940), 205-223.

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