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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. 1 711 (also 649)
Current Location (unknown)
Comments on Inventory Same object as SB Kopt 1 649 erronously published twice in the volume as two different 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 980
Criteria for Dating parallel
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken off on the left 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) The first 4 lines of the text, fragmentarily preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Uncials. Each text line is placed in between two lines.
  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 missing.
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
1ⲓⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭⲥ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day
3of the commemoration
4of the blessed 1Possibly 4-5 lines missing.

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

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309632
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101778
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309632 (= Tomb. Cairo EM X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.