IMRef_697: Name of Mena
- Attestation
- ⲙⲏⲛⲁ
- Translation
- Menas / Mēna
- Description
- Greek male name deriving from the soldier and martyr celebrated at Abu Mena
- Text
- 90
- Provenance
- Faras
- Date
- probably 800–899
- Language
- Coptic
- Linguistic context
- Coptic
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 10
- Latest edition
-
I. Faras Copt., pp. 96–7, fig. 22
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Gender not specified.
This is not necessarily the name of a living person, but of the saint – the beginning of this and the following lines is missing which obscures the context.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.57: Name: foreign (Greek), male, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.57:
- gender: male
- religion: Christian - Person
- 600687: Mena
- Role
- uncertain
- Name
- 4077: Menas
- Name variant
- 54355: ⲙⲏⲛⲁ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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