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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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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    TH[NE] NTOYCIA AdEMT 155 [ON M]MOd NCOYXOYTE [MnjApmMOyYTE MNATIA IDANHC n[p]HMTroye @ MNECOYO NOY [El |PH NE 2AMHN Go “The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost; our father Michael, our father Gabriel, our |s| mother Mary; our fathers the Prophets, our righteous fathers(1), our fathers the Apostles; the holy Apa Sons[na]u(2); |r| our father Apa Thomas and his brethren(3), have mind of my brother [ Jon of the farm dyke(?) (4). He went |:5! to rest on the 15th day of Par- mouti. And Apa John of Touhd mpeswo(s5), in peace. Amen, amen.” BI. NA]MOCTO AOC MMAPTHPOC + ANA MAYAGE? ANA AWTC NENEIOTE NNOG NPwmMeE AMIA AMOAAW 7 ANA AN oyn And iB ATA OWMAC 7 ATA METPE @ ATIA twcHd - ANA ANOYN - NETOYAAB THPOY API io MMEEYE NAMA BAPECO AOMAIOC NPMANTINOY On (1) Perhaps reminiscent of a biblical phrase, e. g. Mat. XIII, 17, though in 29 the prophets are absent. (2) A saint Sansnau is invoked at Deir el-Gebrawi (II, pl. XXIX, no. 3). Perhaps the same (? his church) at Arsinoe (Mit. Rain. II, 261, 263). Cf. fem. Tsansno, LerpotptT, Schenute 142 (not Sansno), A single saint thus inserted in 29, 48. (3) The local worthies, so often enumerated, are thus referred to in 29, 60. (4) Probably a particular locality so named. Cf. 772. (5) Recurs in 35 and Krai XCVIII. Cf. Ryl. 369 n.