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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7721

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7721
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 543
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	Tombstone in two fragments. The edges and the corners are lost.

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, probably no lines are missing, but the text is damaged in some places.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large and regular uncials. There is a line under each text line, and there is one round the edges.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

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

Text

Transcription

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side 1

1	ⲓⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦
3	ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁ
5	ⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲁ
6	ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ
7	ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ
8	ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲉⲛⲏ
9	ⲕⲁ / ⲓⲛⲇ

side 1

1	(Jesus) Christ
2	The day of
3	the commemoration
4	of the blessed
5	Kosma
6	on which
7	he died.
8	Written month
9	(...) 21, indiction (...)

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
17875	man	Kosma	Ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲁ	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 45)

DatasetID	309739
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101610
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309739 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7721), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.