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Tomb. Cairo EM X

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM X
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 706 (also 646)
Current Location (unknown)
Comments on Inventory Same object as Kopt SB 1 706, erronously edited as two separate objects.
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Clédat, Jean
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type tombstone
Dating between 700 and 1000
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on the right and at the bottom.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) First four lines of the text partially preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Fragmentary tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name and date are lost.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲓⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭⲥ ϯ
2ⲡ︦ⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ
3ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ̄ⲡ
4ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the
3commemoration of the
4blessed (...) 1Possibly 4-5 lines missing.

1 Possibly 4-5 lines missing.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309628
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101773
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309628 (= Tomb. Cairo EM X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.