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Persons & Deities

Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68339

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68339
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 607
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	850 CE
Criteria for Dating	dat in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	The top is damaged.

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, partly damaged, first line missing.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Small, not very careful writing. A line frames the text.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	9
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Johannes the deacon and monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated Payni 25th, year after Diocletian (Martyr Era) 566 (= 23.08.850 CE).
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

Transcription

Translation

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side 1

1	ⲓ̄ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
3	ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲥⲟ
4	ⲛ ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ ⲡⲇⲓⲁⲕ
5	ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧ
6	ⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲡⲁⲩ
7	ⲱⲛⲟⲩ ⲕⲉ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲇⲓⲟⲕ,ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ
8	ⲫⲝⲋ ⲉⲣⲉⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲩ
9	ⲛⲁ ⲙⲛ ⲧⲉϥⲯⲩⲭⲏ

side 1

1	(Jesus Christ)
2	The day of the commemoration
3	of our blessed
4	brother Johannes the deacon
5	and monk, on which
6	he died,
7	Payni 25, year after Diocletian
8	566. May God give
9	mercy 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

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
(after) Diocletian (Martyr Era)	566	Payni	25	850 August 23 CE	;

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (109)

DatasetID	309753
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101674
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309753 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68339), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.