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3. Jesus (?) Abba Sia1 Jesus door [of] (?)2 Abba Joseph that of Phibamon the brother monk 4. Abba Apollonos Abba3 Noupnos Abba4 Panoute 5. Jesus Abba Mena Martero[s] XXXX Jesus your voice XX one Mena and Paul The cross | God Make/do XXXX Ten/middle XXXX 6. Paul Safin5 7. Jesus XXXX Mary (?) XX XXX woman XXX son Abba Paul Safin XXX Abba Tenone Do/make (some)one Mena 9.
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For another conjectured example of this uncommon name see D. Benezeth Le tresor de Kom Ombo: Un groupe d'objets liturgiques d'epoque byzantine in Coptic Studies on the Threshold of a New Millennium , Volume 2 (Louvain: Peeters, 2004), p. 1160. 2 I am a bit lost as to what this is (Fakhry is unsure of the reading also, I note). If it is a possessive relationship between Abba Joseph and a noun (door/mouth/gate; or strand/ply), then there should be a grammatical marker, which is absent here. 3 Assuming Ana is a variant of Apa. 4 Assuming Ana is a variant of Apa. 5 Arabic personal name.

Our father Paul 10. ??? ??6 which is holy with Sut XXX 11. XXXXX XXXXX With the seasons 12. Jesus Abba Shenoute XXXX Abba XXXX Abba Pshoi Abba Souros Abba Pammo 13. Jesus ??? The condition 15. Jesus Christ Conquers In [the month of] Pachon In the name of the Father and of the Son a[nd] of the [Holy Spirit] XXXX you blessed Of love XXXX XXXX 16. XXXX one In the name Abba Michael XXXXXXX I Severus the son of the headman Yoke the Holy God Abba Phil-omn Abba
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Maybe: Christ[s] (?) eye

Mina with Abba Victor [and] Abba Philra XXX With Abba Kiere with Abba George XXX the Christ Abba Makari ???? Abram 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit Our father Michael, Gabriel, our mother Mary, our father Adam : with his sons, all of the just Our beloved fathers Abba Apollo, Abba Noup, Abba Phibe, Abba Pathermoute : Abba Prou : Abba Marake and his son Abba Moses and his daughter,7 Abba Jeremias, Abba Noch, our mother Am[sis], Abba Pta : Abba Hor, Abba Johannes the Thin, Abba Panoute, Abba Paulo, Abba Psate the Hairless, Abba Antony, Abba Bes : of all the holy ones of the Vine8 I exalt Father Constantine and his brother Johanueo Nikou ???? ??? : [those] of God concerned (?) in heart who love the fathers Abba Johan the Little [and] thin, he endured the wilderness of abomination,9 for she10 prayed ????11 I explain12 love13 our father Marteros, Abba Victor, Abba Philamon, Abba George, Abba Kirachos, Abba Mena, Abba Phirtheios

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Sic.? Cf. Crum, Dictionary p. 298b 9 Bwt 10 Conjecturing nes for nHs 11 Maybe something to do with an icon? 12 aiebol 13 agape