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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11887

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11887
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 524
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 The two left corners are missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Some of the lines are damaged.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large incised uncials written on raised red lines. On the edge the same color.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of brother Abraham the monk. 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
1ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3ⲙⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲙⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ
6ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ
7ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫ ⲁⲑⲩⲣ /ⲅ/
8ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ /ⲓⲁ/
9ϯ ϯ ϯ
side 1
1(Jesus Christ)
2(The d)ay
3(of the) commemoration
4of the blessed
5brother Abraham
6the monk.
7(Written) on Athyr 3rd,
8(in)diction 11.
9
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16800 man Abraham the monk ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309678
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101591
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309678 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11887), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.