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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. 1 708 (also 620)
Current Location (unknown)
Comments on Inventory Same object as Kopt SB 1 620, erronously edited twice as 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 900
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Upper part broken off.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The last 5 lines of the text are fragmentarily preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+5
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 completely, date partly lost.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
x+1ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟ
x+2ϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲙⲏⲛⲟⲥ
x+3ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ ⲁ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ
x+4ⲁⲡⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ
x+5ⲥ ⲛⲓⲕⲁ ⲁⲙⲏⲛ
side 1
x+1on which he died
x+2month
x+3Khoiakh 1, indiction (...)
x+4after Diocletian (...)
x+5Christ prevails, amen.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16810 man Diocletian ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ Latin

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309630
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101775
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309630 (= Tomb. Cairo EM X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.