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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7718

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7718
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 599
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 784 CE
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation The stele was broken into three fragments, but they give out the whole piece.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) Ten lines of writing well visibly preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large, irregular uncials. A line runs under each text line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of sister Kalole (a female monk) from the Anba Hadra monastery (St. Simeon) in Aswan. Dated: 29th of Athyr, indiction 8, year 501 after Diocletian (Martyr Era) (=25.11.784 CE).
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Comment on Gender deceased is a woman (nun or female monk)
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲓⲩ︦ ⲭⲩ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡ
3ⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲛⲧⲙⲁⲕⲁ
5ⲣⲓ̈ⲁ ⲛⲥⲱⲛⲉ
6ⲕⲁⲗⲱⲗⲉ ⲙⲧ
7ⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟⲥ ⲛϩ
8ⲏⲧϥ // ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
9ⲕⲑ ⲛⲇ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲏ //
10ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲧⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲫⲁ //
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the
3commemoration
4of the blessed
5sister
6Kalole, on which
7she died.
8Athyr
929, indiction 8
10after Diocletian 501.
     
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) 501 Hathyr 29 784 November 25 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309714
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101666
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309714 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7718), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.