Shemʿun Quqoyo Simeon the Potter (5th/6th cent.) [Syr. Orth.].

Author of nine short poems on the Nativity. When Yaʿqub of Serugh came across him working as a potter (quqoyo) in Geshir, a village in north Syria, he soon recognized his poetic talents. Imitations of his poems gave rise to a specific genre of poems, designated ‘quqoye’.

Sources

  • S. P.  Brock, Bride of Light. Hymns on Mary from the Syriac Churches (Moran Etho 6; 1994), 102–8. (ET)
  • S. Euringer, in OC II.3 (1913), 221–35. (Syr. with GT)

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