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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11866

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11866
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 585
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) Nine lines of incised text, the last two lines somewhat damaged.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Regular incised uncials close to each other.

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Dioscoros, the scribe possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan (but provenance is unknown). The date is damaged.
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
1ϯ ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉ
3ⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓ
4ⲟⲥ ⲡⲥⲁϩ ⲇⲓⲟⲥⲕⲟ
5ⲣⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ
6ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ︦
7ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
8/ⲉ/ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓ /
9ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲩ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the comme-
3moration of the blessed
4scribe Diosco-
5ros, on which
6he died.
7Written (in the) month Pakhon
8the fifth, indiction (...)
9year 4(...)1Evidently four-hundred-something, according to the Martyr era.

1 Evidently four-hundred-something, according to the Martyr era.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16235 man Dioscoros the scribe ⲡⲥⲁϩ ⲇⲓⲟⲥⲕⲟⲣⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309671
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101652
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309671 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11866), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.