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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7841

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7841
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 536
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	Top is missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	First 2.5 lines are missing. Eight lines of text preserved and readable.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large and regular uncials executed with great care.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Kosma the monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated (without year) to Epiph 21st, indiction 14.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

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Translation

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side 1

1	ⲓⲥ︦ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3	ⲙⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣ,ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5	ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲁ
6	ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ
7	ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲉⲓⲫ \\ ⲕⲁ \\
8	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ \\ ⲓⲇ \\

side 1

1	(Jesus Christ)
2	(The day)
3	of the commemoration
4	of the blessed
5	brother Kosma
6	the monk
7	month Epiph 21,
8	indiction 14.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17870	man	Kosma the monk	ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲁ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 39)

DatasetID	309738
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101603
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309738 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7841), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.