Anecdota Oxoniensia. Semitic series.

2X2 CHURCHES AND AMONASTERIEI:S OF EGYPT.
Here there is a monastery and a church named after Saint Pachomnius.
This church is large and spacious, being one hundred and fifty cubits
Fol.104a long and seventy-five cubits broad'; but it has now fallen into ruin.
All the pictures in this church were composed of tessellae of glass.
gilded and coloured2; and its pillars were of marble; but it was
wrecked by Al-Hdkim.
Kamulah.
~ Kamfilah. Here there is a church named after the glorious
martyr Theodore. The glorious martyr Mercurius also has a church
here; and there are two churches of the two glorious angels Michael
and Gabricl. There are also two churches of the two glorious martyrs
Saint George and Saint Victor, son of Romanus. There are also two
churches of the glorious saints Sinuthius and John Abu Karkls. There
are also here two monasteries of the glorious martyrs Aba Nflb and
Theodore.
possessed. Another Arabic name of the town is 13lffi (10b), which is nearer to
the Coptic cBOfiwo'. The Coptic life of St. Pachomius describes the foundation of
the great convent here which bore his name. Fa'fi is now in the district of Dashna,
in the province of Kana, and in 188t had, if its northern and southern divisions
are added together, 4,743 inhabitants, besides 99o Bedouins. See Yakt, Geogr.
flart. iii. p. Af; Amelineau, Geogr. pp. 331-333; cf. his IJi's. de S. Pakh6me,
p. 70 f.
' These measurements are interesting if they can be relied lupon. After so
frequent mention of large churches, spacious and nobly planned,' these figures
give at least Abf Salit's idea of a grand building. Taking his cubit at i ft. 6 in..
the church of St. Pachomius would measure 225 ft. in length by 12 ft. 6 in. in
breadth,-truly noble proportions, surpassing all ancient church buildings now
remaining in Egypt, except possibly the White Monastery. (A. J. B.)
2 Another instance of glass mosaic. See above, on the mosaics of Al-Kusair,
fol. 50b. (A. J. B.)
s The Coptic K&.toXAI. It was celebrated for its palms and vegetables.
It is now in the district of Ku1, in the province of Kanl, and in I885 had 1,020
inhabitants. See YakGt, Geogr. isrlt. iv. p. ivv; Al-Idrist (trans. Jaubert), i.
p. 27; Amelineau, GeoPr. p. 391 f.