Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/66
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Copy of an epitaph. “Good [God], remember(1) [those?] that have become blessed (2), [namely] Pamoun of Terfsho[(3) | who went to rest] on the 14th [of |] Simothe (4), who [went to rest on the ] of Pashons(?)[ ” 65. Now in the British Museum. [And oiBjA MON API a MEEYE NT AC@MNH s[E] 5 ane Ercm [TON MMOC ‘©... Apa Phoeb]amon(s5), have mind of my sister Ste- phane(6), who [went to rest...” 66. ATIA cl |.PE., MENEIDT MMYCHC ANA EN@WX NE- CPpA[MMA]TEYC, ANA IEPHMIAC, ANA NAAMO2E, AMA ANOA(A)D NOC, ATA ANOY, ATA MAA NIEp, AMA MA- MoYN opm (1) Looks like mpecspeyc; but could that be used here? (2) I. e. died; cf. waxxpttys yevéolor. A Coptic instance, ZOEGA 284, 34. (3) Probably includes the word now written Turfah (AMELINEAU Géogr. 492, Abu ‘Satih f. 7ab; cf. also Patr. Or. V, 782): ‘Fhe 6 here is doubsful, (4) This name (a saint invoked) at Abydos (PEET, Cemet. Ab. III 39) and Bawit (Cairo Catal. 8781). (5) Unlikely with ©, but this saint is constantly invoked and no other reading suggests itself. (6) ? An error for Stephanou(s). For ‘my sister” cf. 38.