The St. Menas flask: sources and further reading
John of Alexandria's Encomium for St. Menas, written in the seventh or eighth century CE: James Drescher, Apa Mena: A Selection of Coptic Texts Relating to St. Menas (Cairo, 1946), 126-149.
A Coptic account of St. Menas's martyrdom: Drescher, Apa Mena, 100-104.
Five Greek miracle tales of St. Menas: John Duffy and Emmanuel Bourbouhakis, "Five Miracles of St. Menas," in Byzantine Authors: Literary Activities and Preoccupations, ed. J.W. Nesbitt (Leiden, 2003), 65–81.
William Anderson, "An Archeology of Late Antique Pilgrim Flasks," Anatolian Studies 54 (2004): 79-93.
Peter Grossman, "Abū Mīnā," in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. Alexander Kazhdan (New York, 1991), pp. TK.
________, "Pilgerunterkünfte in Abu Mina," in Für Seelenheile und Lebensglück: Das byzantinischen Pilgerwesen und seine Wurzeln, ed. Despoina Ariantzi and Ina Eichner (Mainz, 2018), 201-210.
________, "The Pilgrimage Center of Abū Mīnā," in Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt, ed. David Frankfurter (Leiden, 1998), 281-302.
Alexander Kazhdan and Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, "Menas," in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. Kazhdan, pp. TK.
Gary Vikan, "Menas Flasks," in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. Kazhdan, pp. TK.
