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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11880

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11880
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 654
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 Fragmentary, damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Little of the text remains, the first 3 lines cannot be read, then, approx. 2-3 letters in each line.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Not so regular incised uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of a priest and monk. Possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name and date are missing.
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
1ⲓ̈ⲥ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦
3ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛⲉⲓ
5ⲱⲧ
6ⲡⲣ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ
7ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙ︦ⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ︦
8ⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣ
9ⲟⲓⲁⲕ
10ⲡⲉⲛ
11
side 1
1(Jesus Christ)
2(The day of)
3(the commemoration)
4(of the blessed) fa-
5ther (...)
6the priest (and monk)
7on (which he died)
8(written)
9month Kh(oiak) (...)
10...?...(...)
11(...)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309674
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101721
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309674 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11880), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.