A Coptic proverb inscribed on a wall in one of the churches of the Monastery of St Anthony near the Red Sea by the painter Theodore, a native of the monastery.
ⲧϫⲓϫ ⲛⲁⲧⲁⲕⲟ ⲡⲉⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲛⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ tJiJ natako pesHai namoun ebol “The hand will perish, but what is written will remain’ Jacques van der Vliet. History Through Inscriptions: Coptic Epigraphy in Wadi El-Natrun, Coptica vol. 3, 2004, pp 187-207
