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Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9363

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9363
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 509
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 the two lower corners are missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	Scratches have damaged the last four lines.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large regular uncials well engraved.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	10
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Merkurios the priest and monk from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery. Date is lost (indiction 5).
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

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side 1

1	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
2	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
3	ⲙⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
4	ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩ
5	ⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲡⲉⲡⲣ,ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲁⲩ
6	ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ
7	ⲛ︦ⲧⲁϥⲙ︦ⲧⲟⲛ
8	ⲙ︦ⲙⲟϥ ⲛ︦ϩⲏⲧϥ
9
10	ⲓⲛⲇ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥ ⲉ

side 1

1	The day
2	of the commemoration
3	of the blessed
4	brother Merku-
5	rios the priest and
6	monk
7	on which (he)
8	(died)
9	(...)
10	(...) indiction 5.

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People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
16915	man	Merkurios the priest and monk	ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲡⲉⲡⲣ, ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ	Coptic

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 12)

DatasetID	309778
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101576
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309778 (= Tomb. Cairo SB Kopt. 9363), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.