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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68412

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68412
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 659
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]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Monneret de Villard, M.U. Certainty: high
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 tombstone with lower part missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	First four lines are fragmentarily preserved, lower part of tombstone is missing.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Regular uncials, a line separates each text line.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	4+x
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone probably of a monk [brother] 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: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

Transcription

Translation

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side 1

1	ⲓⲩ ϯ ⲭⲩ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣⲡ
3	ⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛ
4	ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ

side 1

1	Jesus (Christ)
2	The day of (the)
3	(com)memoration of (our)
4	blessed (brother) ¹An unknown number of lines is missing.

¹ An unknown number of lines is missing.

Places (read out from edition)

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 161)

DatasetID	309685
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101726
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309685 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68412), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.