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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. 1 709 (also 647)
Current Location (unknown)
Comments on Inventory Same object as Kopt SB 1 647, 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 680 and 880
Criteria for Dating parallel
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on left and at bottom.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The first 3 lines of the text, fragmentarily preserved due to the damaged state of the stela.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 3+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 missing.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender fragmentary, name missing but from the definite article it can be seen that the deceased is a woman
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲓⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲩ︦ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡ︦
3ⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲛⲧ
4ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲁ1The deceased is a woman.

1 The deceased is a woman.
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the
3commemoration of the
4(blessed...)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309631
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101776
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309631 (= Tomb. Cairo EM X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.