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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7693

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7693
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 523
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 Stela broken into four fragments. A part on the lower right is missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Seven lines of text, ll.4-6 fragmentary.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Regular uncials. Above and below each text line there is a line, also round the edges.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Menas the Nubian from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated Mesore (...), indiction 10, no year.
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
1ⲓ̄ⲥ̄ * ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5ⲙⲏⲛⲁⲥ ⲡⲁⲛⲟⲩ
6ⲃⲁⲥ ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
7ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ \\ⲓ\\
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day
3of the commemoration
4of the blessed
5Menas the
6Nubian, month Mesore (...)
7indiction 10.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18065 man Menas the Nubian ⲙⲏⲛⲁⲥ ⲡ[ⲁⲛⲟⲩ]ⲃⲁⲥ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309770
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101590
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309770 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 7693), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.