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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9651

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Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9651
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 618
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	Fragmentary piece, missing on all sides.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Unknown number of lines missing at the beginning of the text, the preserved lines are also very fragmentary.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Small engraved uncials with little regularity.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name of the deceased is lost.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Christianity

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side 1

x+1	ⲡⲉ
x+2	ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓ
x+3	ⲟⲛ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙ︦ⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ︦
x+4	ⲙⲟϥ ⲛ︦ϩⲏⲧϥ ⲙⲏ ⲁⲑⲩⲣ ⲓ︦ⲏ︦
x+5	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲃ ⲡϫⲟⲉⲓⲥ
x+6	ⲉⲣⲉ ⲟⲩⲛⲁ ⲙⲛⲧⲉϥⲯⲩⲭⲏ ϩⲛⲕⲟⲩ
x+7	ⲛϥ︦ ⲛⲁⲃⲣⲁϩⲁⲙ ⲙⲛ︦ⲓⲥⲁⲁⲕ ⲙⲛ︦ⲓⲁⲕⲱⲃ ⲅⲉⲛⲟⲓⲧⲱ
x+8	ϩⲁⲙⲏⲛ ⲉϥⲉϣⲱⲡⲉ

side 1

x+1	(...) ...?...
x+2	(...) the monastery
x+3	(the day on which) he
x+4	(died, month) Athyr 18,
x+5	(indiction) 2 (?). May the Lord
x+6	(give mercy to his) soul in the bosom
x+7	(of Abraham and Isak and Iakob), let it be
x+8	(...) Amen, let it be.

Places (read out from edition)

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 120)

DatasetID	309718
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101685
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309718 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9651), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.