Perg. Cairo EM without number

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Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Perg. Cairo EM without number
Publication Number	ASAE 23
Current Location	Cairo Coptic Museum
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	partly published

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object Type	parchment
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Three parchment fragments in a very bad condition.

Localization of Text on Object	flesh / hair side
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Badly preserved, fragmentary.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Sahidic
Comments on Text Layout	Three fragments of the same folio, all inscribed on both sides. Frg 1 has parts of lines 1-14, frg 2 has parts of lines 12-20, frg 3 has parts of lines 16-22

Modern Title	Ps.-Chrysostom`s Encomium on the Four Bodiless Creatures
Text Types	literary religious religious \| Christian religious-literary religious-literary \| Christian
Summary of Content	In Munier`s edition the text was not identified, tentatively "Livre d`Enoch" (Book of Enoch). Birger A. Pearson identifies it as fragments of a homily on the four living creatures of the Apoclypse of St. John (Rev 4,6-8). Another manuscript with this homily is in the Pierpont Morgan Library (M612), the present fragments correspond to paragraphs 25-27 of this M612 manuscript. In this section Christ gives a description of the four creatures in a dialogue with Thomas.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Religion	Christianity

Transcription

Translation

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1	(... up)on (the earth)
2	...
3	(..) the world (...)
4	the creatures. If this (wrath is kindled, they cry)
5	out, saying "Holy, (Holy),
6	Holy are you, O Lord Sabaoth. (You without anger, do not)
7	be angry. You without sin, do not take reckoning (with the)
8	sinful (children) of humanity. You without evil, (do not wish)
9	evil upon the children of (humanity, for they)
10	are flesh and blood. If you (pay close attention to lawlessness),
11	who will be able to stand (in your)
12	presence? (...)
13	and (...) and (...) and (...)
14	(...) every mercy ...
15	(Through) their holy prayer, when the
16	(creatures) entreat) the Father in this way,
17	(their prayer) becomes strong (like a hard stone)
18	(between) the Father and
19	the (world so that their sinful stench) may not
20	come up (to him). And the Father
21	ceases from his wrath. (Furthermore, O my) fellow
22	holy (members), behold (I say)

1	(...)
2	(...)
3	(...) Saraphouel and (Michael)
4	(and Gabriel) and Mary, (my mother the)
5	(virgin), and Enoch the scribe, (which they)
6	(make) for the world, they would (not)
7	(be given) even a small piece of bread for their houses
8	(and) wine, (whether) garment or anything
9	(...) except they give them
10	(...) and the other things lacking. For this reason
11	(my Father) appointed Enoch
12	the (scribe of) righteousness
13	under (the creature with the) human (face...)
14	For if a person sins, even to (commiting)
15	fornication or (defilement or murder)
16	or magical arts (or) sorcery
17	(...) (when he)
18	comes to the end of his life, (one of the creatures, the)
19	one with the (human) face, (cries out, and) he
20	exhorts Enoch the scribe of
21	(righteousness) saying, "Do not be hasty in writing down
22	(the sins of the children) of men, but

Places (read out from edition)

DatasetID	316363
last Change	29.07.2022
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 316363 (= Perg. Cairo EM without number), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.