The Scrolls of Bishop Timotheus
Two Documents from Medieval Nubia
by J. Martin Plumley
Discovered in 1964 at Qasr Ibrim, the scrolls are a key find from that season’s Egypt Exploration Society work. They are notable for being the finest surviving medieval letters of a Coptic Patriarch to a bishop, showing that the Christian Church persisted in Lower Nubia into the late 14th century.
Found in 1964 at the fortress of Qasr Ibrim in Nubia, the scrolls must be reckoned amongst the most important discoveries in that season’s work by the Egypt Exploration Society. They are doubtless the finest surviving example of medieval letters testimonials issued by a Patriarch of the Coptic Church to a bishop after his consecration and before his subsequent enthronement. Their greates importance, however, is as evidence that the Christian Church was still surviving in Lower Nubia in the late 14th century and its adherents numerous enough to warrant their own bishop.
- By (author) J. Martin Plumley
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