Anecdota Oxoniensia. Semitic series.

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270 CtHURCrlES AIVD MIOA-.STA' ERIES OF EGPT'.
with him. The governor of Egypt also commanded that the wooden
gong should be struck on the roof of [George's] lodging, that his
friends might assemble at his house for prayers and the liturgy,
as in his own country. This went on until George, the king's son,
returned to his father in safety and with honour.
~ And when the king's son returned to his father, the latter founded
Fol. 98 a a large church, which he caused to be skilfully planned. in thanksgiving
to God for the safe arrival of his son. This church was [afterwards]
consecrated by Anba George, bishop of Natfil, who was sent by Anba
Christodulus, the sixty-sixth patriarch. This patriarch also asked for
assistance from the king, on account of the exactions from which he
suffered at the hands of the government and of the Lawatis, in the year
7372 of the Righteous Martyrs (A. 1). 100o-1). At the consecration of
the church, the Holy Ghost descended upon one of the vessels of water,
prepared for the ceremony. and the people saw a light shed upon
that water; so the king took that water in his hand, and carried it
to his house; and he gave to the bishop money to take to the
patriarch, that he might be relieved from the extortion from which
he suffered.
~ Church of Al-Wadi. This is called after Saint Onuphrius. [The
place where it stands] is called the desert of * * ". and is at a distance
of three days' journey from the extremity of Nubia, and at a distance
of ten days' journey from Uswann. Solomon, king of Nubia, spent his
time in worshipping God at this church4, after he lead abdicated. lie
said: ' Who is there among the kings that can be saved by (God while
he still governs among men; and that is not swayed by his passions,
Close to the modern Sahrajt, ehlich is in the district of lil Ghamr, in tle
province of Ad-Dakallltyah in the D)ilia. It is the Coptic trLow, and the
Greek Leontopolis. M. Amflineau has not noticed that, in the C'opto-Arabic
lists which he himself publishes, Leonton corresponds to Natl, as Nell as to t3,
as he proposes to read the nord. See his Gceigr. pp. 269-70, 409, and 57i-5.
Incorrect date; see p. I21, note. s There is a word omitted il the NIS.
Tlhis is related in the history of the patriarchs; cf. Renaudot, Ilis. Pair.
p. 451 f.