Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7695

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_309751.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7695
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 595
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 900
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The top and lower corners missing.

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 Regular uncials engraved deeply. A line separates each text line. A dot is seen at the end of letters and in the middle of O-s.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 12
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Theophilos the deacon and monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Date is missing but it is with the formula "after Diocletian".
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
1ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣⲡ
3ⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛ
4ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓ̈ⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ
5ⲑⲉⲟⲫⲓⲗⲟⲥ ⲡⲇⲓ̈ⲁ
6,ⲇⲓⲁⲕⲟⲛⲟⲥⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟⲛ
7ⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟ
8ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲉ
9ⲅⲣⲁⲫ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ
10ⲓⲛⲇⲓ̈ⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲓ̈ⲁⲡⲟ
11ⲇⲓⲟⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁ
12ⲛⲟⲩ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the
3commemoration of our
4blessed brother
5Theophilos
6the deacon and monk,
7on which he
8died.
9Written month (...)
10indiction (...) after
11Diocletian (...).
     
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 309751
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101662
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309751 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7695), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.