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Persons & Deities

Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9700

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9700
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 571
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	751 CE
Criteria for Dating	date in text
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Regular engraved uncials. A line runs round the edges, forming a frame.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	11
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Mena the priest from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Dated Thoth 1st, indiction 5, year (Martyr Era) 468 (= 30.08.751 CE).
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	ϯ ⲓⲥ ϯ ⲭⲥ ϯ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦
3	ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁ
5	ⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ
6	ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ⲡⲉⲡⲣ,ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ
7	ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ
8	ⲙⲙⲟϥ ⲛ︦ϩⲏⲧϥ
9	ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫ,ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲏⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲑⲱⲑ
10	ⲁ \\ ⲓⲛⲇ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲉ
11	ⲉⲧⲟⲩⲥ ⲩⲝⲏ

side 1

1	Jesus Christ
2	The day of
3	the commemoration
4	of our blessed
5	brother
6	Mena the priest
7	on which
8	he died.
9	Written: month Thoth
10	1, indiction 5,
11	year 468.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
18100	man	Mena the priest	ⲙⲏⲛⲁ ⲡⲉⲡⲣ,	Coptic

Dates

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
(Martyr Era)	468	Thoth	01	751 August 30 CE	date in text;

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (73)

DatasetID	309775
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101638
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309775 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9700), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.