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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11795

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11795
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 642
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 between 700 and 1000
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Damage on right hand side 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 end of some lines and the last 2 lines damaged. Incised, no ink or colour.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large and regularly engraved uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 155
Column Height (in mm) 280

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone (epitaph) of Sofron. Possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) Monastery, although provenance uncertain.
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
1ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
2ⲙⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
3ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲥ
4ⲟⲛ ⲥⲟⲫⲣⲱⲛ
5ⲡⲁⲕⲁ
6
7ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ
side 1
1The day
2of the commemo(ration)
3of the bless(ed bro-)
4 ther Soph(ron)
5...?...
6...?...
7indiction ...
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16115 man Sophron ⲥⲟⲫ[ⲣⲱⲛ] Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309661
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101709
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309661 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11795), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.