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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68425

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68425
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 557
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 728 CE
Criteria for Dating date in the text
Range of Preservation incomplete
Comments on Object Probably belongs to object Assouan 231 [b] + 336.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) An unknown number of lines missing at the beginning of the text, last 6 lines are preserved but damaged.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Regular uncials. Each text line is between two lines.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of a Severos monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery. Dated Mechir 4th, indiction 11, year 444 after Diocletian (i.e. Martyr Era) (=30.01.728 CE).
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
x+1ⲥⲉⲩⲏⲣⲟⲥ ⲡⲙⲟ
x+2ⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙ
x+3ⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ︦ⲙⲟϥ ⲛ︦ϩⲏ
x+4ⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲏ ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ ⲇ
x+5ⲓⲛⲇ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲓⲁ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲁ
x+6ⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲩⲙⲇ ϯ
side 1
x+1Severos the
x+2monk on which
x+3he died,
x+4written (in the) month Mechir 4,
x+5indiction 11, after Diocletian
x+6year 444.
     
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 444 Mecheir 04 728 January 30 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309734
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101624
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309734 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68425), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.