Excavations at the Monastery of St Antony at the Red Sea
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https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-09-07Keywords:
Monastery of St Antony, Coptic monasticism, Coptic material culture, Coptic manuscripts, monastic cell, monastic church architectureAbstract
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.
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