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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68379

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68379
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 665
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 1000
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Lower part of the stela is missing, left part also damaged.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Beginning of lines is missing, as well as last 1-2 lines.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Uncials of medium size and regular form.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of a priest and monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name and date lost.
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
1ϯ ⲓⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣⲡ
3ⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲛ
4ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ
5ⲥ ⲡⲉⲡⲣⲉⲥ
6ⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟ
7ⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ
8ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛ︦ϩⲏⲧϥ︦
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day of the
3commemoration of our
4blessed brother
5(...) the
6priest and
7monk, on which
8(he died...) 1Probably 1-2 lines missing.

1 Probably 1-2 lines missing.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309758
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101732
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309758 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68379), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.