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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9370

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9370
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 635
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 Right side and bottom missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The end of each line as well as the end of the text are missing.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large, regular uncials with lanrge spaces in between.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Merkurios the monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Date is missing.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion, further Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5ⲛ︦ⲥⲟ
6ⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲟⲥ
7ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day
3of the commemoration
4of the blessed
5brother
6Merkurios
7the monk 1An unknown amount of text is missing.

1 An unknown amount of text is missing.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
17555 man Merkurios the monk [ⲙ]ⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩ[ⲣⲓⲟⲥ] ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309712
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101702
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309712 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9370), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.