Coptic Scalae 12th-14th Century

COPTIC SCALAE (12th-14th centuries)

1.) The following names of episcopal seats are mentioned in various MSS containing lists of place-names in Coptic and the Arabic equivalent. Cf.: Amélineau, Géographlie d'Egypte à l'Epoque Copte, 1893, pp. 566-568. T.: MC 1054-1062 C+A

Coptic Arabic

PKAĒ NNJOSH ARḌ AN-NAJĀSHĪ

TNOBATIA AN-NŪBA

SUWAN ASWAN

PELAK AL-JANĀDIL

SENON ASWAN

ΤΑΝΤĒΥΚΕ ARḌ AT-TĀKA

Coptic Arabic

ΤΑ NOYBATIA AN-NŪBA

TLIBE AN-NŪBA

PKAĒ NEDJOOSH ARD AL-ḤABASHA PILAK . BILAQ

TLYBĒ AN-NŪBA

LIBĒ AN-NŪBA (Br.Mus. 441)

PILAK BILAQ "

NIETAUSH AL-ḤABASHA "

LIBĒ AN-NŪBA

PILAK ASWAN

PILAK BILAQ

SOΑΝ ASWAN

TLYBĒ AN-NŪBA

2. ) The following episcopal seats are mentioned in the Synodical Letters:

TBAKI SOYAN The town of Aswan

TBAKI PILAK The town of Philae

OSASO KATO The Lower Oasis

OSASO BAĒ PEMDJE Wahat, Bahnasa, Kharga

KHURIGKHOY Oasis.

3. ) The following is the name of a church:

APA BOKTOR NIETAOYSH Apa Boktor of the Blacks

         (A. Boktor of al-Ḥabasha)

4. ) the following are place-names from other documents:

dated 1173: (IB)RIM (Cf. Bouriant, Récueil de Travaux ... Philologie Egypte et Assyrie VII, 1886, p. 218)

undated NTHOOPE London, Brit.Mus. MS 449

" TALMEOS London, Brit.Mus. MS 452

" PI KATARAKTES, Acta, CSCO III, i, Paris 1907

" PILAK "

" NIETAOYSH "

" TLYBĒ "

(MC 1054-1062)