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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7759

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7759
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 552
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	718 CE
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Broken off at the upper right corner.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Eleven lines of text quite well preserved.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Wide, regular uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Pekosh from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated: Pharmouthi 4th, indiction 1, year of Diocletian (Martyr Era) 434 (30.3.718 CE).
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 ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦
3	ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁ
4	ⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲡⲉϭⲱϣ
5	ⲡⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲥ ⲫⲁ︦ⲣ ⲇ
6	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲁ
7	ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗ,ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲩⲗⲇ
8	ⲉⲣⲉⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ ⲣⲟⲩ
9	ⲛⲁ ⲙⲛⲧⲉϥⲯⲩ
10	ⲭⲏ ϩⲁⲙⲏⲛ ⲉϥⲉ
11	ϣⲱⲡⲉ ϯϯϯ

side 1

1	Jesus Christ
2	The day of the
3	commemoration of the
4	blessed Pekosh
5	the faithful, Pharmouthi 4th
6	indiction 1,
7	after Diocletian 434.
8	May the Lord give
9	mercy to his soul.
10	Amen, may it
11	happen.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16810	man	Diocletian	ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ	Latin

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Era of Diocletian (Martyr Era)	434	Pharmuthi	04	718 March 30 CE	date in text;

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 54)

DatasetID	309711
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101619
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309711 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7759), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.