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Persons & Deities

Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68368

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68368
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 581
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	777
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Three fragments forming the lower part of a stela.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The first 2.5 lines are missing, the rest of the text, altogether 8 lines, is preserved.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Small uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of a woman named Sion from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated after Diocletian (Martyr Era) 494, Thoth 4th, indiction 1 (= 01.09.777 CE).
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Woman
Comment on Gender	deceased is a woman
Religion	Christianity

Text

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side 1

1	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
2	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲛ︦
3	ⲧⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲁ ⲥⲓⲱⲛ
4	ⲛ̄ⲧⲁⲥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ
5	ⲙⲟⲥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣⲁ
6	ⲫⲏ ⲑⲱⲑ ⲇ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ
7	// ⲁ // \\ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁ
8	ⲛⲟⲩ // ⲩϥⲇ ϯ

side 1

1	(The day)
2	(of the commemoration of)
3	the blessed Sion
4	on which she died.
5	Written
6	Thoth 4, indiction
7	1, after Diocletian
8	494.

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)	494	Thoth	04	777 September 1 CE	date in text;

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (83)

DatasetID	309763
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101648
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309763 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68368), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.