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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11834

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11834
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 535
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
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Regular uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Dioscoros, evidently a monk ("brother"). Possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan, but provenance is unknown.
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
1ⲓⲥ ⲭⲥ
2ϯ
3ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣ
4ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲙⲁ
5ⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲇⲓ̈
6ⲟⲥⲕⲟⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲓ̈ⲥⲧⲟⲥ
7ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲛ︦ⲕⲟⲧⲕ︦ ⲛ︦ϩⲏⲧϥ
8ⲉⲅⲣ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏⲫⲁⲣⲙ / ⲓ̈ⲑ
9ⲓⲛⲇ / ⲓⲇ ϯ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2
3The day of the
4commemoration of the
5blessed brother Di-
6oscoros the faithful,
7on which he died.
8Written in Pharmouthi the 19th,
9indiction 14.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16215 man Dioscoros ⲇⲓⲟⲥⲕⲟⲣⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309669
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101602
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309669 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11834), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.