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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11879 [b]

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11879 [b]
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 653
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
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	Fragment of a tombstone, rest missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Only the first 4 lines remain.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Regular engraved uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4+x
Quantity of Columns	1

 

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone. Possibly from the Anda Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name and date are missing. Fragmentary.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Christianity

 

Text

 

 

Literature

• Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 155)

 

DatasetID	309684
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101720
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309684 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11879 [b]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.