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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11797

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11797
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 514
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 complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) The 9 lines of text can be seen and read. Incised, no ink or colour.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Fine and regular uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1
Line Lenght (in mm) 300
Column Height (in mm) 320

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone (epitaph) of Severios, possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) Monastery in Aswan, although provenance is uncertain.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3ⲙⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲙⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲓ̈ⲟⲥ
6ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ
7ⲙⲙⲟϥ
8ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ ⲓ̈ⲃ
9ⲓⲛⲇⲓ̈ⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day
3of the commemoration
4of the blessed
5Severios
6who di-
7ed
8Phamenoth 12th
9indiction 7.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16120 man Severios ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲓⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309662
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101581
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309662 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11797), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.