Excavations at the Monastery of St Antony at the Red Sea: The Monastery in Literary Sources during the Period of Study

Jesper Blid, Maximous El-Antony, Hugo Lundhaug, Jason Zaborowski, Meira Polliack, Mengistu Gobezie Worku, Samuel Rubenson

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Abstract

This paper discusses the results from recent archaeological investigations at the Monastery of St Antony in Egypt, including the remains of a number of building phases predating the current church, locally produced pottery, and manuscript fragments written in Coptic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Ge’ez.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)133-215
JournalOpuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes At Athens and Rome
Volume9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Free keywords

  • Monastery of St Antony
  • Coptic monasticism
  • Coptic material culture
  • Coptic manuscripts
  • monastic cells
  • monastic church architecture

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