dipinto in church
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Metadata
Collection
| Inventory Number |
dipinto in church |
| Publication Number |
Beiträge zur Sudanforschung 8 |
| Current Location |
in situ |
| Publication Permission Status |
(unknown) |
| Publication Status |
published |
Origin / Provenance
| Ancient Provenance Site |
Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance Details |
in the monastic complex of St. Simeon/Anba Hadra |
| Ancient Provenance District |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Discovery |
find (unspecified)
Certainty: |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Object
| Object Type |
dipinto |
| Dating of Object |
962 CE |
| Criteria for Dating |
date in text |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
190 cm above floor level |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
one-sided |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome brown |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
complete |
| Script, Primary |
Coptic |
| Language, Primary |
Coptic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
Letters are about 1.5 cm high, not regaular, badly ruled uncials in a swift and practised but rather careless hand. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
6 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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Text Content
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content |
Commemorative inscription about the death of a person named Petro (Petros), who was a monk in the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery. So the "Monastery of Apa Hatre" of Aswan is concretely mentioned. He died "after Diocletian" (i.e. Martyr Era) 678, Parmoute 24 (19.04.962 CE). The text has another date: the first year of a King Zachari. |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Comments on Text |
Dating according to a Nubian king as well - Nubian influence in the region in 10th century? |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Christianity |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | The day on which|
2 | | our brother Petro(s) went to rest, in year 1|
3 | | of King Zachari, while living in the Monastery|
4 | | of Apa Hatre of Aswan: after Diocletian 678|
5 | | Parmoute day 24. Lord,|
6 | | have mercy upon his soul.
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| Places (read out from edition) ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ (places.xml#s8) |
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People mentioned in Text
Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| after Diocletian (Martyr Era) |
678 |
Pharmuthi |
24 |
962 April 19 CE |
date in text; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
309611 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
141617 |
| Author |
Andrea Hasznos |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309611 (= dipinto in church), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos. |
