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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68411

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68411
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 662
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 complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The tombstone is complete, but the text was carved out and only the first four lines remain.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting From what remains the writing seems to have been regular.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name and date are lost.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2ⲡⲉϩⲟ
3ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day
3of the commemoration
4of the blessed 1An unknown number of lines missing.

1 An unknown number of lines missing.
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309773
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101729
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309773 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68411), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.