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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11820

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11820
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 587
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 The right side is damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Due to damage the end of lines is missing. Incised, no ink or colour.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Boktor (Victor?) possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) Monastery in Aswan. Provenance unknown.
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
1ϯ ⲓⲥ ⲭⲥ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣ
3ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡ
4ⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ ⲃⲱⲕ
6ⲱⲣ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙ︦ⲧⲟⲛ
7ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ︦
8ⲅⲣⲁⲫ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ ⲓⲛ
9ⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ
side 1
1Jesus (Christ)
2The day (of the)
3commemo(ration of our)
4bless(ed)
5brother Bok(t)-
6or, on which
7he died.
8Written Mechir 8 (?), in-
9diction, year (...)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16180 man Boktor (Victor?) ⲃⲱⲕⲧⲱⲣ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309664
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101654
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309664 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11820), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.