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Evidence ID
E07006Saint Name
Athanasios, bishop of Alexandria, ob. 373 : S00294Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - LivesLanguage
CopticEvidence not before
580Evidence not after
640Activity not before
320Activity not after
640Place of Evidence - Region
Egypt and CyrenaicaPlace of Evidence - City, village, etc
AssiutPlace of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Assiut
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
HermopolisCult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Composing and translating saint-related textsSource
The parchment codex M 583 with the two Encomion on Athanasios by Constantine of Siout comes from the monastery of the Archangel Michael near Hamuli in the Fayum and now belongs to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The colophon dates the production of this manuscript to the year AD 822–823.
For details see T. Orlandi, Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari online at
http://www.cmcl.it/entrata.html/Bibliography
Text and translation:
T. Orlandi, Constantini Episcopi Urbis Siout Encomia in Athanasium Duo, CSCO 349/Copt. 37 and 350/Copt. 38 (Louvain, 1974).
Mentioned in:
Emmel, S., "Coptic literature in the Byzantine and early Islamic world," in: R. Bagnall (ed.), Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300–700 (Cambridge, 2007), 83–102, p. 95.