Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7764

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Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7764
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 577
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

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 Type	tombstone
Dating of Object	767 CE
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Four fragments of a tombstone, parts missing.

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Upper part missing, some lines damaged.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large and regular uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Andreas the monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated: Paone 2nd, indiction 5, after Diocletian 483 (27.5.767 CE).
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Transcription

Translation

Pictures

side 1

1	ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣ︦
3	ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲉ
4	ⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ
5	ⲥⲟⲛ ⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲁⲥ ⲡ
6	ⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲁϥ
7	ⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏ
8	ⲧ︦ϥ︦ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲉ
9	ⲃ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲉ̣ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲇⲓⲟ
10	ⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲩⲡⲅ

side 1

1	(Jesus Christ)
2	The day of (the)
3	commemoration of (our)
4	blessed
5	brother Andr(eas)
6	the monk on which
7	he died.
8	Written Paone
9	2nd, indiction 5 ¹Uncertain reading. First editor write the number 5 but translates "third indiction". year of Dio-
10	cletian 483.

¹ Uncertain reading. First editor write the number 5 but translates "third indiction".

Places (read out from edition)

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17525	man	Andreas the monk B	ⲁⲛⲇⲣ[ⲉⲁⲥ] ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ	Coptic

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Era of Diocletian (Martyr Era)	483	Payni	02	767 May 27 CE	date in text;

DatasetID	309708
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101644
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309708 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7764), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.