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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68391

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68391
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 588
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 Four fragments of a stela.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Nine lines of text, but every line is damaged.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting A line runs round the edges and serves as a frame.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of a brother Aron the deacon from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Date Phamenoth, indiction 13, year (after Diocletian, i.e. Martyr Era) missing.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲓⲥ ϯ ⲭⲥ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉ
3ⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁ
4ⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲁⲣⲱⲛ
5ⲡⲇⲓⲁⲕⲱⲛ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥ
6ⲙ︦ⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ︦ⲙⲟϥ ⲛ
7ϩⲏⲧϥ︦ ⲙⲏ ⲫⲁⲙⲉⲛⲱⲑ
8ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲓⲅ
9ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the commemoration
3of our blessed
4brother Aron
5the deacon, on which
6he died,
7month Phamenoth
8(...) indiction 13,
9year after Diocletian (...).
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
17850 man Aron the deacon ⲁⲣⲱⲛ ⲡⲇⲓⲕⲱⲛ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309730
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101655
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309730 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68391), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.