Anecdota Oxoniensia. Semitic series.

178 CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES OF EGYPT.

Al-Khaizaraniyah'. Here is the church of Saint Pbemen, [the
garden of] which contains fruitful palm-trees and an arbour of trees2.
Munyat Andunah3. Here there is the church of the saint
Abu Bimah4; and a church named after Abu Bagham6, the
1 This village or district was, as we have been told a few lines above,
contiguous to Al-Jizah. Both the locality and its church of St. Poemen are
named in the Copto-Arabic lists (Amelineau, Geogr. pp. 578 and 580), thus
z1n1. Lxn no~ l T'O..: ' ~j-k A.. L.'
'[Church of] Saint Poemen at Pouhit or Al-Khazraniyah.' \I. Amelineau, in
spite of his study of Abi Salih, has not discovered the mention of this place and
church in our author, and therefore is totally at a loss as to the position of
Al-Khazraniyah, or Al-Khaizaraniyah (op. cif. p. 363). The name of St. Poemen,
M. Amdlineau assures us, is translated into Greek [sic] by 'Pastor' I
2 -L.-AI, put by a clerical error for LAI, seems to denote trees, and is
probably the Syriac J>.J.
3 This village, on the west bank, a little to the south of Al-Jizah, is said to
have been named after a Christian scribe of Ahmad al-Mada'ini, whose riches
excited the cupidity of Ahmad ibn Tulun, so that he fined him 50,ooo dinars.
See Al-Makrizi, Khitat, i. p. r. A.
4 In Coptic L&n& CII.U.6, which is more correctly transcribed in Arabic
as 'Aba Abimah.' He was a celebrated martyr, born at Pankoleus in the nome of
Pemje or Al-Bahnasa. Pankoleus appears to be the same as Jalfah, which is
mentioned by our author on fol. 73 b and 74 a; see Amelineau, Geogr. p. 96.
Epime or Abimah was a landed proprietor and the chief of his townsmen. In
the persecution of Diocletian, he was ordered to bring forth the presbyters of the
town and to hand over the sacred vessels, but answered that there were no
permanent priests there, and that the vessels were of glass. The saint was sent
to Alexandria, where Armenius, the governor, condemned him, it is said, to be
thrown into a furnace at the baths, from which he emerged unhurt; but finally he
was beheaded, after manifold tortures, at Ahnas. His life was written by Julius
of Akfahs; and his festival is kept on Abib 8=July 2. See Synaxarzum at that
day; Zoega, Cat. p. 22; Amelineau, Actes des MM. p. I34.
5 A soldier in the time of Diocletian, who, on account of his adoption of
Christianity, was scourged and afterwards put to death. His festival is on
Kihak 2=Nov. 28.