... them with the monastic community and only two graves could be identified as belonging to members of the clergy. This chapter provides the site plan and photographs of the cemetery. Coptic cemetery Naqlun archaeological site Fayoum Oasis Egypt monastic community Some time after...

...) was cut into the steep western cliff face of an outcrop between two wadis. Monumental tombs line the principal ridge, with a lower and a higher level of smaller tombs and shafts. This chapter explores the way that monks adapted the tombs of al-Shaykh Saʻid to a monastic community as well as the role...

...The history of the Coptic Orthodox Church makes no mention of the monastic community or the Holy Virgin Church in the Qusqam region until the fourteenth century ad. However, manuscripts and documentation preserved in the monastery prove that there were both activity and continuity of life...

...This chapter discusses the identification of the superiors of the Monastery of Apa Thomas at Wadi Sarga and presents some points of departure for reconstructing a relative chronology of this monastic community based on Coptic epitaphs and documents. The first part demonstrates that the monastic...