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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7763

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7763
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 538
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	An almost complete tombstone, only two fragments are missing on the edges.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Eight lines of text almost fully preserved, only 2-3 letters missing.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	The writing is placed upon lines but the uncials are of different sizes.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	8
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Georgios the faithful, probably a monk, from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated, but no year: 1st Thoth, indiction 15.
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

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Translation

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side 1

1	ⲓⲥ ϯ ⲭⲥ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5	ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ
6	ⲡⲡⲓ̈ⲥⲧⲟⲥ
7	ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲑⲱⲑ \\ ⲁ
8	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ \\ ⲓ̈ⲉ

side 1

1	Jesus Christ
2	The day
3	of the commemoration
4	of our blessed
5	brother Georgios
6	the faithful.
7	Month Thoth 1st,
8	indiction 15.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16910	man	Georgios B	ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 40)

DatasetID	309768
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101605
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309768 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7763), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.