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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68406

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68406
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 511
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, they give the beginning and the end of the tombstone.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Eight somewhat fragmentary lines of text remain.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Fine and slim uncials, a practised hand.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of a monk named Mou[...] from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Date is missing (only indiction 6 and Epiph remain).
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	ϯ ⲓ︦ⲥ ︦ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5	ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ ⲙⲟⲩ
6	ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ
7	ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲉⲓⲫ
8	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲁⲣⲭ ⳽

side 1

1	Jesus (Christ)
2	the day
3	of the commemo(ration)
4	of the (blessed)
5	brother Mou(...)
6	the monk
7	month Epiph (...)
8	indiction 6.

Places (read out from edition)

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 14)

DatasetID	309700
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101578
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309700 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68406), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.