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
HOLLIS Primo search 'The Life of Martha Symeon' returns a chapter-level record 'The Life of Martha' inside L. Parker, Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch (2022), the monograph itself, a 2016 Journal of Early Christian Studies article ('Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha', JECS 24.1, 99-125) and a 2025 collected-volume chapter ('Mothers' Time') (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,%22The%20Life%20of%20Martha%22%20Symeon&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The 2022 book's HOLLIS contents confirm chapter 4, 'The Life of Martha', is a thematic analysis (Cult Promotion and Apologetic / A Reorientation of Priorities / Liturgy and Ritual Practice / Conclusion), not a translation; there is no appendix. ccel.org ANF/NPNF tables of contents have no Life of Martha.
Short but unusual Life of a holy woman who is neither martyr nor nun; Parker argues it is a key witness to the contested promotion of the Wondrous Mountain cult. Greek text: P. Van den Ven, La vie ancienne de S. Syméon Stylite le Jeune, vol. 2 (Subsidia Hagiographica 32, 1970), which edits the Life of Martha alongside the Life of Symeon. No English translation located; only translated excerpts in scholarship.
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. Checks run 2026-11-13, all with real requests. (1) Internet Archive: advancedsearch 'Symeon Stylite' and creator 'van den Ven' each return exactly one item, bwb_T5-AVQ-105 = P. van den Ven, La vie ancienne de S. Symeon Stylite le Jeune, 1962, 464 pp; metadata 200, 'access-restricted-item: true' (borrow-only, in copyright). That is the 1962 volume, which carries the Life of Symeon; the Vita Marthae is edited in the 1970 companion volume (Subsidia Hagiographica 32, II), and title/creator searches ('Subsidia Hagiographica' -> 2 items, neither it; 'Symeon Stylite' -> 1) do not surface it anywhere on IA. (2) DigiVatLib title/keyword search (k_f=3 'Martha', 'Marthae'; k_f=0 'Μάρθα', 'Συμεῶνος Στυλίτου', 'Vita Marthae'): three hits, all opened and all rejected on content - Cappon.77 is an Italian vernacular 'rappresentatione di Santa Martha' (s. XVI), Vat.lat.5052 has 'Vita [s. Marthae] auct. Pseudo-Marcilia, interprete Pseudo-Syntyhce' (the apocryphal Acts of Martha of Bethany), and Reg.lat.288 is a twelfth/thirteenth-century miscellany with no Martha text. (3) BnF SRU (HTTP 200) for bib.title 'Vita Marthae' -> 3 records, all Martha of Bethany/Magdalene material (Raban Maur's Life; Marthae Marchinae Musa posthuma) - none is the Symeon Stylites Life. Gallica images remain 403 from this host, so even a BnF hit would not have given page images. (4) LOC Sinai collection API: HTTP 429 behind a Cloudflare 'Just a moment...' interstitial on three attempts spread over ~3 minutes - the Sinai Greek manuscripts could not be searched at all, so Sinai is an unchecked gap, not a negative. Conclusion: no scan of the Greek text located after the named checks. The modern edition (van den Ven 1970, SH 32 II) is in copyright and not openly digitised; an earlier print, if one exists, was not identified. The manuscript route is only partly tested: the Vatican was searched and has nothing, while the Sinai holdings could not be queried at all.
Parker, Lucy. "Symeon stylites the younger and late antique antioch,." Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162726081703941
"Female authority and holiness in early and medieval Christianity." Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158715148503941
Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger”
(greek gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-anonymous-vita-marthae