Bawit
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Bawit (
Arabic: باويط Bāwīṭ; Coptic: ⲡⲁⲩⲏⲧ Bawet[1]) is an archaeological site located 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Asyut, near the village of Dashlout, in Egypt. It covers an area of 40 hectares (99 acres), and houses a cemetery and the ruins of the Hermopolite monastery of Apa Apollo founded by Apollo in the late fourth century. The structures on this site are relatively well preserved, and demonstrate different aspects of a monastic complex of Middle Egypt
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History
The Apa Apolla monastery (Coptic: ⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱ) is a Coptic monastery founded c. 385/390 and had about 500 monks.[2] The sixth and seventh centuries were a period of prosperity for this monastery, which then hosted a community of women, under the patronage of Rachel.[3] A fresco found at the monastery depicting Rachel dates to the sixth century.[4] After the Islamic invasion, the monastery declined, and was abandoned around the tenth century.
Excavation
In early 1901, a survey of the site and surrounding areas was made by
Musée du Louvre in Paris. Numerous sculptures and paintings were unearthed during the excavations.[6] The papyrologist Jean Maspero (1885–1915) resumed excavations in 1913, discovering a common room with several entrances. In 1976, then 1984 and 1985, the Supreme Council of Antiquities
resumed excavations and added to the collections of the Coptic Museum. Since then, excavations have continued under various organizations.
References
- ^ "Trismegistos". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
- ISBN 9780262020251. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ISBN 978-977-416-260-2. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ISBN 978-3-643-90124-8. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ New York Public Library; Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1925). Ancient Egypt: sources of information in the New York public library. The New York public library. p. 5. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ISBN 978-977-424-691-3. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
Further reading
- Jean Clédat, 1901, "Notes archéologiques et philologiques", Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire (BIFAO), no 1, p. 87-91
- Jean Clédat, 1902, "Recherches sur le kôm de Baouît", Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (CRAIBL), no 30, p. 525-546
- Jean Clédat, 1904, "Le monastère et la nécropole de Baouît", Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire (MIFAO), no XII, 1 et 2
- Jean Clédat, 1904, "Nouvelles recherches à Baouît (Haute-Égypte). Campagnes 1903-1904", CRAIBL, no 32, p. 517-527
- Charles Palanque, 1906, "Rapport sur les recherches effectuées à Baouît en 1903", BIFAO, no 5, p. 1-21
- Émile Chassinat, 1911, "Fouilles à Baouît", MIFAO, no XIII
- Jean Maspero, 1913, "Rapport de M. Jean Maspero sur les fouilles entreprises à Bâouit", CRAIBL, p. 287-301
- Jean Clédat, 1916, "Le monastère et la nécropole de Baouît", MIFAO, no XXXIX
- Gustave Schlumberger, 1919, "Les fouilles de Jean Maspero à Baouît en 1913", CRAIBL, p. 243-248
- Jean Maspero, 1931 and 1943, "Fouilles exécutées à Baouît, (notes mises en ordre et éditées par Étienne Drioton)", MIFAO, no LIX, 1 and 2
- Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, 1995, "Le monastère de Baouît. État des publications", Divitiae Aegypti: Koptologische und verwandte Studien zu Ehren von Martin Krause, Wiesbaden, p. 279-288
- Dominique Bénazeth and Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, 1999, "Jean Clédat, Le monastère et la nécropole de Baouît" MIFAO, no 111
- Dominique Bénazeth and Thomasz Herbich, 2008, "Le kôm de Baouît: étapes d’une cartographie", BIFAO, no 108
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