TIHNA AL-JABAL. About 6.5 miles (10 km) northeast of Minya are
the ruins of an ancient Egyptian town, Tehni, with its
necropolis. At the same place there was, it is believed, a town
of the Hellenistic period called Achoris, also with its
necropolis. There was also a Muslim cemetery. There were
Christian anchorites at Achoris very early, as is attested by
the HISTORIA MONACHORUM IN AEGYPTO. This work, however, does not
say precisely where they had their abode—merely "in the district
of Achoris." Greek and Coptic inscriptions have been found that
prove monastic occupation of the necropolis. On this point,
reference may be made to the excavators, who give the plan of
the tombs: Ahmad Kamal (pp. 232-341), Lefèbvre and Barri (pp.
141-58), and Lesquier (pp. 132-33). The hypogea have yielded
Greek and Coptic inscriptions that have been published by G.
Lefèbvre (1903, pp. 369-72; 1907, nos. 117-65). Several are
indubitably of monastic origin (1907, nos. 121, 149, 162, 164).
Lefèbvre has published three inscriptions,