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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68395

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68395
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 600
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	786 CE
Dating	between 502 and 786
Criteria for Dating	dat in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Bottom part of a stela, rest missing.

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 3 lines are preserved, fragmentarily.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large uncials, of long but not very deep lines.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+3
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Very fragmentary, the name is lost but the date is extant: Phamenoth 17th, indiction 9, after Diocletian (Martyr Era) 502 (=13.03.786 CE).
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Christianity

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side 1

x+1	ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲫⲁⲙⲉ
x+2	ⲛⲱⲑ ⲓⲍ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥⲑ ⲁⲡⲟ
x+3	ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲫⲃ

side 1

x+1	(...) written Phame-
x+2	noth 17, indiction 9, after
x+3	Diocletian 502.

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 (Martyr Era)	502	Phamenoth	17	786 March 13 CE	date in text;

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 102)

DatasetID	309741
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101667
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309741 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68395), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.