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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7795

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7795
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 539
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	Almost complete, only a part at the top is missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	The text is well preserved and complete.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large uncials. A ridge on the edges serves as a frame to the text. Each text line is separated by two lines.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	7
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Petros the faithful from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Date is without year: 7th Phamenoth, indiction 15.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

Transcription

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side 1

1	ϯ ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ
3	ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁ
4	ⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ
5	ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ
6	ⲙ︦ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ : ⲍ
7	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ : ⲓⲉ ϯ

side 1

1	Jesus Christ
2	(The) day of
3	the commemoration of the
4	blessed brother
5	Petros the faithful
6	Phamenoth 7th,
7	indiction 15.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16950	man	Petros B	ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 41)

DatasetID	309687
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101606
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309687 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7795), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.