The Coptic ostraca of the Theban hermitage MMA 1152. 1. Letters (O. Gurna Górecki 12–68)

• Authors: Boud'hors Anne
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article is the first in a series that aims to publish all the Coptic ostraca discovered by Tomasz Górecki during his excavations in the hermitage MMA 1152 (Western Thebes) between 2003 and 2013. Here, I am presenting the edition of private letters. There are altogether sixty-eight such texts, of which eleven have been published elsewhere and fifty-seven are edited here. Even though many of them are very fragmentary, one can recognize various topics common to the letters of this region in the seventh–eighth centuries. They also testify to the relations that existed between the hermitage and the neighbouring sites of the Theban region.

Keywords

EN

Coptic; ostraca; Western Thebes; hermitage MMA 1152; letter; book production; monasticism; clerks; daily life; prayer; charity

• Publisher: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Journal: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 47
• Pages: 45-100

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Boud'hors Anne

• IRHT section Grecque 52, rue du Cardinal Lemoine F-75005 Paris France

Identifiers

ISSN

0075–4277