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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7783

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7783
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 517
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	Four fragments of a tombstone, parts missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Damages in some places, but the 8 lines of text are quite well visible.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large, quite regular uncials. The ends of the letters are terminated by a kind of a dot.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Andreas the monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated but not with year: Mechir 3rd, indiction 8.
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	ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5	ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ
6	ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ
7	ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ \\ ⲅ
8	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ \\ ⲏ

side 1

1	Jesus (Christ)
2	The day
3	of the (commemoration)
4	of (the blessed)
5	brother Andreas
6	the monk,
7	month Mechir the 3rd,
8	indiction 8.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17030	man	Andreas the monk	ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 20)

DatasetID	309690
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101584
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309690 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7783), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.