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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11875

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11875
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 631
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 Lower part missing and in genaral somewhat fragmentary.

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 some damages the text is not complete, the last two or three lines are missing.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large, regular incised uncials. A line separates each text-line, and one runs around the edges of the tombstone.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Funerary inscription (tombstone) of Johannes the archpriest. Possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan.
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 ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦
2ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲛⲡ
3ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲗⲓⲟⲛ ⲛ︦
4ⲥⲟⲛ ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲁⲣ
5ⲭⲏⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲛⲧ
6ⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ
7ⲏ ⲙⲓⲣ
8
side 1
1(The) day (of)
2(the comm)emoration of the
3bless(ed)
4brother Johann(es the arch-)
5priest (on which)
6he died,
78th of Mechir ...
8(...)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16770 man Johannes the archpriest ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛ[ⲏⲥ] ⲁⲣⲭⲏⲡⲣⲉ[ⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ] Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309672
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101698
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309672 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11875), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.