E07010: Coptic Encomion on *Mark (the Evangelist, S00293), attributed to John of Shmun (c. 600), written in the late 6th/early 7th century. Skeleton entry

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History

Evidence ID

E07010

Saint Name

Mark the Evangelist : S00293

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Mark_the_Evangelist/13729921

Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Lives

Language

Coptic

Evidence not before

580

Evidence not after

630

Activity not before

600

Activity not after

630

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 - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Composing and translating saint-related texts

Source

For details see T. Orlandi, Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari online at http://www.cmcl.it/entrata.html/

Bibliography

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.