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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68410

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68410
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 505
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:
Finder (= First Purchaser)	Monneret de Villard, M.U. Certainty:
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 form three-quarters of a tombstone.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	With some damages but basically the complete text of the tombstone.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large, regular uncials. There is a line below each text line.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Kyros the monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated but not with year: Phamenoth [...], indiction 5 (?).
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	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5	ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲕⲩⲣⲟⲥ \\
6	ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲕⲟⲥ
7	ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ
8	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ \\ ⲉ̣

side 1

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

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17035	man	Kyros the monk	ⲕⲩⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 8)

DatasetID	309691
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101572
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309691 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68410), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.