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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9975

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9975
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 562
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 of Object 732 CE
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower part of a tombstone, upper part missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) As the upper part of the tombstone is lost, only the last three lines are extant of the text.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Uncials of middle size. There is a line under each text line, and one runs round the edges serving as a frame.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines y+3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Fragmentary tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name is lost, part of the date is preserved: year 449 after Diocletian (= 732/733 CE).
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
x+1ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲁ
x+2ⲁⲡⲟ ⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁ
x+3ⲛⲟⲩ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ: ⲩⲙⲑ
side 1
x+1indiction 1(?)
x+2after Diocletian
x+3year 449.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Era of Diocletian (Martyr Era) 449 732 CE 733 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309706
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101629
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309706 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9975), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.