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Tomb. Cairo EM TR 23.12.38.9

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM TR 23.12.38.9
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 621
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 Lower part 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) Only the last 4 lines of a tombstone, but even these lines are fragmentary.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Small uncials, written compactly and tightly.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Fragmentary tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery. Name, date are missing, but it was dated with the "year after Diocletian" formula (i.e. Martyr Era), and contains the prayer formula "may the Lord give mercy to his soul".
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+1ⲛⲇⲓⲕ..ⲁⲡⲟⲇⲓⲟ
x+2ⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ...ⲡϫⲟ
x+3ⲉⲓⲥ ⲣⲡⲉⲥⲛ
x+4ⲙⲛ︦ⲧⲉϥⲯⲩⲭⲏ
side 1
x+11An unknown number of lines missing before that. indiction (...) after Dio-
x+2cletian (...) May the Lord
x+3give mercy (?) (...)
x+4to his soul (...)

1 An unknown number of lines missing before that.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16810 man Diocletian ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ Latin

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309740
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101688
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309740 (= Tomb. Cairo EM TR 23.12.38.9), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.