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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7741

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7741
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 580
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
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Four fragments of a tombstone. Parts missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) 11 lines of text, more or less complete.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large uncials. A line goes around the edges, and a line separates each text line.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of a Jacob archpriest from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated: Era of Diocletian (Martyr Era) 492, Mechir 15th, indiction 14 = 10.02.776 CE.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲓ︦ⲩ ⲭ︦ⲩ︦ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣⲡ
3ⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁ
4ⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛⲓⲱⲧ ⲓⲁ
5ⲕⲱⲃⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏⲡⲣⲉ
6ⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡ
7ⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙ
8ⲧⲟⲛ ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ
9ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲉⲭⲓⲣ ⲓⲉ //
10ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ ⲓⲇ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟ
11ⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲛ ⲩϥⲃ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2(The da)y of the
3(commemorati)on of our
4blessed father Ja-
5cob the arch-
6priest and the
7monk, on which
8he died.
9Written Mechir 15th,
10(indiction 14) after Dio-
11cletian 492.
     
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) 492 Mecheir 15 776 February 10 CE date in text;

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309755
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101647
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309755 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7741), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.