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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11821

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11821
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 572
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 of Object 753 CE
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Upper part missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Only the last 6 lines are extant.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large, regular incised uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of a monk (name lost) possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery (provenance uncertain). The date on it is Payni 20, 469 = 14.06.753.
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
1
2ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟ
3ⲭⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙ︦
4ⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ︦ⲙⲟϥ ⲛ︦
5ϩⲏⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ
6ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ̈ ⲕ ⲓⲛⲇ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲓⲉ
7ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲩⲝⲑ
side 1
1(...)
2(...) the monk
3on which
4he died.
5Written (in the) month
6Payni the 20th, indiction 15,
7year 469.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Martyr Era 469 Payni 20 753 June 14 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309665
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101639
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309665 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11821), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.