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Artefact ID1330
TM IDTM 832503 / TM 106075
Findspot (DEChriM ID)63   (Apa Phoibammon in the Rock)
ClassTextual
MaterialStone
Writing mediumGraffito
Text contentSubliterary
LanguageCoptic
Archive/DossierDossier
Description

I.Mon.Phoeb. 43; SB VIII 9802 (4) 

Nine lines of a graffito written by a fugitive (10 x 6 cm), reading: "The day in which I was pursued by the soldiers is the 25th of Pharmouthi, inside this Topos, on...".

Part of the bilingual dossier of Horion neoteros: see I.Mon.Phoeb. 1 and Delattre and Worp 2012.

Selection criteriaMention of Christian cult officials/institutions, Coptic language
Date from350
Date to399
Dating criteria

Part of the dossier of Horion neoteros, dated 4th c. in Delattre and Worp 2012, following the date given in ed.pr. More recently Wipszycka has questioned the unity of the dossier, which is impossible to verify without any images (see Wipszycka 2009: 182-183, n. 49).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Circular Cliff: West Side. Mural no. 56.

Accession number

Thebes, monastery of Apa Phoibammon, in situ.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• ‘Abd al-Masîḥ, Yassâ, Till, Walter C. and KHS-Burmester, Otto Hugh Ewart. 1965. "Coptic Graffiti and inscriptions from the monastery of Phoebammon" In Le monastère de Phoebammon dans la Thébaïde. 2 Graffiti, inscriptions et ostraca, ed. Bachatly et al. Cairo, no. 43, p. 50.

Additional bibliography

Delattre, Alain and Worp, Klaas. 2012. "Annexe. Terkythis dans un graffito inédit de la montagne thébaine" Journal of Juristic Papyrology 42, 95-99.

• Rémondon, Roger. 1955. "Problèmes militaires en Égypte et dans l'Empire à la fin du IVe siècle." Revue historique 213, 21-38 (esp. p. 35, no. 4).

• Wipszycka, Ewa. 2009. Moines et communautés monastiques en Egypte. Varsaw.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1330", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1330
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