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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68361

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68361
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 598
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
Range of Preservation	incomplete
State of Preservation	Upper half of the stela missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	The latter 5 lines of the text remain, the first half of the text, 3-5 lines, is missing.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Very regular uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	x+5
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. The name of the deceased is missing. The date is fragmentary but the year was given as after Diocletian (i.e. Martyr Era).
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Religion	Christianity

Text

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side 1

x+1	ⲁϥ ⲁⲥ ⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ︦
x+2	ⲙⲟ ϥ ⲥ ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ
x+3	ⲉⲅⲣ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲫⲁ
x+4	ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲓⲁ ⲁⲡⲟ
x+5	ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗ,ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲩ ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ

side 1

x+1	(he/she died)
x+2	(on that day)
x+3	written: month Pha(...)
x+4	indiction 11, after
x+5	Diocletian year (...)

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16810	man	Diocletian	ⲇⲓⲟⲕⲗⲏⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ	Latin

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (100)

DatasetID	309771
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101665
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309771 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68361), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.