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In hagiography: the “Egyptians of Qartmin” were a group of 800 monks from Egypt who were buried at Qartmin. Their legend was connected to the crania in the monastery Qartmin. Eight hundred princes on pilgrimage from Egypt became monks of Qartmin.

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  • The Egyptians of Qartmin
  • LES ÉGYPTIENS DE QARTMĪN1

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Notes

In hagiography: the “Egyptians of Qartmin” were a group of 800 monks from Egypt who were buried at Qartmin. Their legend was connected to the crania in the monastery Qartmin. Eight hundred princes on pilgrimage from Egypt became monks of Qartmin.
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 135. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Andrew Palmer, Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier: The Early History of Tur ‘Abdin, University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 39 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p: 58-62fig: 15, 16. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “The Egyptians of Qartmin.”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1216.

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