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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11881

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11881
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 504
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

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 surface damages most lines are but partly readable.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Strongly erased/damaged, but fairly regular incised uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone. Possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name is missing, the person is characterized as a "Nubian" after his name (broken out).
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
1ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣ
2ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲙ
3ⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲡⲁ
4ⲥ ⲡⲁⲛⲱ
5ⲃⲁⲥ ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ
6ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ
7ⲉⲅⲣ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲭ ⲁ
8ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ
side 1
1(The) day of the
2(comme)moration of the
3(bless)ed Apa
4(...)s the Nu-
5(bian on which) he
6died.
7(Written on Kho)iak 1st
8(in)diction 5.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309675
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101571
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309675 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11881), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.