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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7692

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7692
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 617
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 800 and 900
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Three fragments of a stela, a part missing at the bottom.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Twelve lines of text, partly damaged, no lines missing.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

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

Text

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Translation

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side 1

1	ϯ ⲓⲩ ϯ ⲭⲩ ϯ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉ
3	ⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓ
4	ⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲁⲛⲓ
5	ⲟⲥ ⲡⲉⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ
6	ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲧ
7	ⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏ
8	ⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ // ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
9	ⲏ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ // ⲁⲡⲟ
10	ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ
11	ⲉⲣⲉⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲣⲟⲩⲛⲁ
12	ⲙⲛ︦ⲧⲉϥⲯⲩⲭⲏ

side 1

1	Jesus Christ
2	The day of the
3	commemoration of our blessed
4	brother Epiphanios
5	the priest
6	and monk,
7	on which he died.
8	Written Pakhon
9	8, indiction (...) after
10	Diocletian (...)
11	May the God (give mercy)
12	(to his soul)

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

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

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 119)

DatasetID	309743
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101684
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309743 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7692), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.