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Persons & Deities

Tomb. Cairo EM

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 611
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	858 CE
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Fourteen lines of text preserved.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Not very regular uncials. A line frames the text.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	14
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Khael the priest and monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated after/year of Diocletian (i.e.Martyr Era) 574, Thoth 12th (= 09.09.857 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	ϯ ϯ ϯ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙⲡⲣⲡ
3	ⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲙ
4	ⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛⲥⲟⲛ
5	ⲭⲁⲏⲗ ⲡⲉⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃ
6	ⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙ
7	ⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫ
8	ⲏ ⲙⲉⲛⲏ ⲑⲱⲑ
9	ⲓⲃ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲇⲓⲟⲕ,ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ
10	ⲫⲟⲇ ⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ
11	ⲡⲁⲅⲁⲑⲟⲥ ⲉϥⲉ
12	ϯ ⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲛⲧⲉϥⲯ
13	ⲩⲭⲏ ⲅⲉⲛⲟⲓⲧⲱ ⲁ
14	ⲙⲏⲛ ϯ

side 1

1
2	The day of the
3	commemoration of our
4	blessed brother
5	Khael the priest
6	and monk.
7	Written
8	month Thoth
9	12, year Diocletian
10	574. God
11	the Good, may he
12	give rest to his
13	soul. Let it be,
14	amen.

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)	574	Thoth	12	857 September 9 CE	date in text;

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (113)

DatasetID	309760
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101678
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309760 (= Tomb. Cairo EM ), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.