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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11802

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11802
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 575
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	tombstone
Dating of Object	758 CE
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Some light damages, esp. on the upper part.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some light damages, esp. on the upper part, but the text is well visible.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Engraved uncials, not so regular.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12
Quantity of Columns	1
Line Lenght (in mm)	330
Column Height (in mm)	380

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone (epitaph) of Abba Isidoros possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan (provenance uncertain), dated 474 of the Martyr Era, i.e. 758 CE.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

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Translation

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side 1

1	ⲓⲩ ϯ ⲭⲩ ϯ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦
3	ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲛ
4	ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ
5	ⲉⲓⲱⲧ ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲓ̈
6	ⲥⲓⲇⲱⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲣ
7	ⲭⲏⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉ
8	ⲣⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ
9	ⲙ︦ⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧ︦ϥ︦
10	ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲏ ⲙⲉⲥⲟ
11	ⲣⲉ ⲓⲋ ⲓⲛⲇ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥⲓⲁ
12	ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲩⲟⲇ

side 1

1	Jesus Christ
2	Then day of com-
3	memoration of our
4	blessed
5	father Abba
6	Isidoros the
7	archpriest
8	on which
9	he died.
10	Written (in the) month Meso-
11	re 16th, indiction 11,
12	year 474.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16130	man	Isidoros abba, the archpriest	ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲓⲥⲓⲇⲱⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ	Coptic

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Martyr era	474	Mesore	16	758 August 9 CE	date in text;

Literature

Botti, Giuseppe, Ville d'Alexandrie (Egypte) : catalogue des monuments exposés au Musée Greco-Romain d'Alexandrie. (Nr. 278)
Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 77)

DatasetID	309624
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101642
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309624 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11802), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.