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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7701

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7701
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 579
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 776 CE
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation An intact tombstone.

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 text remain entirely preserved.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large uncials executed with some clumsiness. A line separates the text lines and one runs around the edge serving as a frame to the text.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 10
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Peiot the monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated: Mechir 2nd, indiction 14, year 492 (= 776 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
1ϯ ⲓ︦ⲩ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲩ︦ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣ
3ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡ
4ⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲡⲉⲓⲱⲧ
6ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲛ
7ⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟϥ
8ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ //
9ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ ⲃ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲓⲇ
10ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲩϥⲃ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the
3commemoration
4of our blessed
5brother Peiot
6the monk on
7which he died.
8Written
9Mechir 2, indiction 14,
10year 492.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
17085 man Peiot the monk ⲡⲉⲓⲱⲧ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Era of Diocletian (Martyr Era) 492 Mecheir 02 776 January 28 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309736
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101646
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309736 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7701), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.