Greek and Coptic Ostraca from the Monastery of Bawit in the Bible+Orient Foundation, Fribourg
No ancient title preserved; modern edition title: Les ostraca grecs et coptes du monastère de Baouît conservés à la fondation Bible+Orient de l'université de Fribourg (Suisse)
· Various — monks of the monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit
· unknown (Bawit monastery; the 'chine nsa' formula marks the whole lot as Bawit products)
· other
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
Only edition: S. Lopizzo, Les ostraca grecs et coptes du monastère de Baouît (IFAO, Bibliothèque d'études coptes 25, 2016), language 'fre;grc;cop' in HOLLIS, 68 ostraca (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,ostraca%20grecs%20et%20coptes%20du%20monastere%20de%20Baouit&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation located; the same HOLLIS query returns 6 records, all French editions or French conference volumes.
68 Greek and Coptic ostraca acquired by the Fribourg foundation in 2005; nearly all carry the 'chine nsa' formula that ties them to Bawit. Letters, accounts and small legal notes from the monastery's everyday economy.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: no scan located. No scan located. The objects themselves are the witnesses (68 ostraca, Fribourg) and the only edition is Lopizzo, Les ostraca grecs et coptes du monastere de Baouit, IFAO Bibliotheque d'etudes coptes 25 (2016), a print monograph; no open PDF of it was found and no digitised image of the ostraca was reachable. Checked: IA title:(Baouit) -> 6 hits, five old MIFAO excavation volumes (Cledat, Maspero, Chassinat) plus one 2019 article, none of which edits these ostraca; www.bible-orient.ch does not resolve from this host (HTTP 000, no DNS answer), so the foundation's own catalogue could not be queried; IFAO site search (https://www.ifao.egnet.net/?s=ostraca+Baouit, 200) returned no publication record for the volume. Edition text is the only route to a translation, and it is not digitised.
"Christianity and monasticism in Middle Egypt." Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2015]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990145043840203941
"Christianity and monasticism in Middle Egypt." Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2017. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153671607703941
Cite: Tergwame, “Greek and Coptic Ostraca from the Monastery of Bawit in the Bible+Orient Foundation, Fribourg”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-bawit-fribourg-ostraca