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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68421

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68421
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 597
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
Rotation	uncertain
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Five fragments of a stela (tombstone).

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Eleven line of text, partly damaged/fragmented.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large, regular, spaced uncials. A ridge on the edges of the block serves as a frame to the text.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Severos the monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated but the year is missing: Paone 2nd, indiction [...], year after [Diocletian ...]
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

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Translation

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side 1

1	ϯ ⲓ︦ⲩ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲩ︦
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦
3	ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5	ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲙⲟⲛ,ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ
6	ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙ︦ⲧⲟⲛ
7	ⲙ︦ⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏ
8	ⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ
9	ⲙⲏ,ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲉ
10	ⲃ, ⲓⲛⲇ//
11	ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲇⲓⲟⲕ, ...

side 1

1	(Jesus) Christ
2	The day of
3	the commemoration
4	of the blessed
5	Severos the monk
6	on which he
7	died.
8	Written
9	month Paone
10	2nd, indiction (...)
11	year (... after Diocletian).

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16935	man	Severos the monk	ⲥⲉⲩ[ⲏⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲙ]ⲟⲛ,	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (99)

DatasetID	309686
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101664
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309686 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68421), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.